>I disagree, VFP is NOT Mainstream, it si a database development language and is not a general purpose application language like VB is. VB is everyman's development tool and it is marketed to everyone from professional developers to weekend hobbiests. VFP is a fully object oriented relational database development language and therfore has a different market segment that is interested in it.
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>As for Micorsoft's promotion of VFP, you are right it is not in the same spotlight that VB is in. BUT, there is a devcon in september this year dedicated to VFP, VFP is now part of the Visual Studio and a copy of it ships with every copy of Visual Studio. These two items alone indicate that inside MS VFP is taken seriously.
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>In a large company like MS there issue of investing advertising dollars has to have a return, when they look at VB that sells millions of copies and then look at VFP that sells 100,000's of copies it is not surprising that the advertising budgets are different.

Additionnaly to that, unless I am mistaking, I think VFP is still the only DevCon that Microsoft is having on a dedicated product. Yes, it's true that this is coming from Fox Software but stand still, it's still a dedicated DevCon to a particular product after more than 4 years.