>We will be making critical decisions about the platform for the next version of our product (currently VFP/SQL) this year, and are anxiously waiting to see how the whole .net and VFP-out-of-the-box thing shakes out. I would LOVE to preserve our investment in VFP, but we have already lost one chunk of business (At least partially) because of "our technology" - with VFP mentioned specifically.
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>While I would prefer to use VFP long-term, I'm sick of having to explain/apologize/sell/etc VFP all the time in addition to selling our product.

I suspect that since MS probably figures that C/C#/C++ or VB will be your "second" choice, they (marketing) don't give a hoot about whether you drop VFP or not ... And an "enterprise" copy of C or VB is worth more than a copy of VFP to them also.

I was once blown away to learn there were only 6 people working on C++ MFC, and that was from the team's Lead; that would mean: there are "how many people" working on VFP ?