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It seems like everyone took my question to be bashing MS. I was looking for concrete services/ideas to implement.
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Actually, I think everyone took your question as an opportunity to make smartass remarks.... it's dangerous posting such a message on a Friday Evan!
In seriousness, your list included most of it. In the end, most of the not-quite-so-techie managers, bosses, contract signers either have not heard of FoxPro, or haven't heard of it for seven years. They see ads and articles and entire magazines for C++, VB, Java. It has an impact.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. - Bertrand Russell