I have spent many years using Foxpro happily. Unfortunately clients will no longer accept the risk of new development with VFP. I dont blame them.

Thanks to MS it is perceived as a dead language. Its elegant, kind of like anient Greek or Latin. But nevertheless dead.

The latest issue of Foxpro Advisor is shortened by another 4 pages and the ads, well, what ads. The editorial in the latest issue is about how we should also program in VB. Yea right. I would like to see VB Advisor tell their readers to also program in VFP.

I am very dissapointed at how MS has treated VFP (and us) in favor of an inferior product like VB. I've had (and still have) the displeasure of using VB for development. VB is a mediocre tool for general purpose development. Crashes frequenty, requires many many many OLE's to do simple things and takes longer to develop, debug and support serious apps with it. It has no elegance and no innovation. I can program in other finer languages that are free, better supported and fun.

Maybe you guys have the stomach to migrate over to VB and give MS the pleasure of holding you hostage again. I am looking at other options and I believe I have found freedom outside of MS.

By the way MS has sealed VFPs coffin by not making it .NET compatible. And if you buy that sorry excuse of how VFP is better off without it, then I have a bridge in NYC to sell you.

Do yourselves a favor. Start thinking about moving on. Check out other non-MS products. Dont fall into the VB trap. You will find that there is a great world out there of innovation.

Again for a good example check out www.Python.org its fee and runs on many platforms. I would like to know what you think of this VB killer.

Another excellent product is Delphi from Borland. And now they have Delphi for Linux called Kylix (From the ancient Greek meaning circle. Who knows maybe dead languages are making a comeback)

Costas