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>Regardless of what happens, MS will never push VFP as a strategic tool to the enterprise. It is however, a solution. And, so long as VFP can appear in magazines like MSDN, InfoWorld, etc, with ads that describe what VFP does best -with URLs to case studies - things will improve.
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Enterprise, schmenterprise . . . I have been to countless MS promotional efforts in my city and a few others north of the border over the last 7 or 8 years. The ONLY two database tools I have EVER heard mentioned are ACCESS and SQL Server. (correction, I have heard Sybase and a few others at these events)

Please note that this is not a shot against any one of those products - I've done a fair bit of work with VB-ACCESS the last six months and happen to think it is an OK combo - but is not anywhere near as powerful as VFP, IMHO.

Tell me something, is ACCESS an enterprise solution?? In fact, what defines an 'enterprise' in your books - or anyone else's? Doesn't that depend on the size of the 'enterprise'?

Is the only alternative for a business that has outgrown ACCESS to move to SQL Server? It must be . . . because that is all I ever hear at MS functions. And I think that this is the very issue that pisses off so many of us who know that VFP could very easily fill that 'void'.

But, of course, there are more $$$ to be made in selling SQL licenses and MS is ultimately in the business of satisfying their shareholders. And who can hold that against them? As much as those of us who think VFP has been largely ignored by MS don't like it - that's the way it is . . . and probably the way it will continue to be. I hope I'm wrong.