I want to contribute with a different point of view for considering VFP as a serious development language.
I am from Peru. Here in my country we have plenty of small to mid-sized businesses which do not have enough resources (specially money) to jump consistently into the automation era using complex solutions (office automation, n-tier computing, web-based business and so forth). It is a matter of economic and technological development I guess (maybe the knowledge and use of the internet and its related technologies as IP telephony, e-commerce and e-business have not grown as necessary here yet). Under this scenario, Visual FoxPro emerges as the tool that best suites our needs as developers to build low-cost, easy-mantainable, efficient information systems. I think something similar happens in other of the third-world countries.

Fausto