<<>What's the matter with MS - No budget for VFP or something?>>

BINGO! Think about who's got the biggest budget. VFP or VB. VB is inside of practically every product within the #1 selling office suite in the entire world (Microsoft Office). Of course they are going to have the best budget which in turn means the best marketing. The bottom line is VFP is Microsoft's best database development tool, bar none. IMHO it is Microsoft's only Database development tool.

Don Knoup