>Robert:
>MS has always marketed Visual Studio as a "Developer's Suite". Has that strategy changed ?

Yes. Visual Studio.NET is a developer tool, not a suite. One IDE, one set of tools, one programming model, one runtime, multiple .NET languages, some of which we supply (VB, C#, C++ Managed Extensions, JScript), others supplied by 3rd parties.

>If not then
> is VFP not considered as a developers tool anymore ?

VFP is a developer tool.

>if so,
> How is Visual Studio going to be marketed as ?

Comprehensive tool for building the next generation of Web applications and Web Services (or something along those lines).

VFP will be marketed as a RAD tool for building high performing database applications, as well as components and Web Services.

>Anyway Jokes aside, My company's future, and I am sure I speak for several others, depends on the road we take ahead. If VFP is indeed not something that MS is interested in then maybe we will put our efforts into VB, ASP Etc. But I dont think wait and see policy is fair. What is stopping MS from making a statement which will help it's developer clients ??.

If we weren't interested in VFP, we wouldn't spend so much time thinking and worrying about it. We wouldn't be having this conversation. Of course we are interested in it. But no, as a company, M