>I think that the most important thing is for MS to make a solid commitment to VFP. I think the second most important thing is that the marketing be targeted at Microsoft itself. This means that the VFP team and others at MS do an inter organizational marketing so that wehen you go to the Dog & Pony shows the MS people don't indicate if you bring up FoxPro that you are talking about a dead product. VFP is an obvious product for businesses that aren't going to require something like an SQL server. MS personnel should be aware of this and promote it as such. It should also be pointed out that Access is a desktop product and in making SQL queries isn't really a match for VFP.
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>Secondly, to add a little Adam Smith capitalism, VFP should be taking advantage of all markets to get the product and MS software much broader exposure. I am talking about other operating systems. There is a burgeoning market in Linux that would allow VFP to get in where MS is tacitly ignored. There are in addition a lot of other operating systems such as IBM's. Not being tied to an operating system's common language should give VFP a very strong market advantage over competing products.
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>The question is whether Microsoft will exploit this for the benefit of the product. After all VFP maybe the best product that MS has.

FWIW, I attended an MSDN session yesterday on .Net and the speaker, while showcasing the new VS IDE, mentioned that the best things from the various VS6 IDE's was brought together to make the new IDE. Among the list he mentioned the VFP IDE.

From what he had on the screen I immediately identified the command window.