>>My lone vote is to keep it integrated, keep it in the VS package, and increase the marketing effort. It is a good product, better than many others, and should be strongly supported.
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>I guess you have not followed the messages from Robert Green. Read the interview that Evan Delay did with Robert and Ricardo. MSFT is strongly supporting VFP and will market it. How much is anyones guess right now.
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>The good news is that VFP will be out in May instead of August/September when VS.NET will be released.

I read all of the discourse. but I do not know at this point if VFP 7.0 will embrace .NET technology. I reviewed the beta, but was thinking that with the divorce, some of the features qand interoperability will be dropped out. I hope not, and I also hope the application development tools will worke together.
I have been doing Fox for a long time, and am nearing retirement, and want to bring some new blood online, and seem to be frustrated at most every turn I hate to see anything happen to cause less interest in an intrinsincly excellent middle tier database product.
Sure I look forward to the new release too, but I also have to sell the platform to a client as well, not just be overjoyed with a new toy.