Craig,

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>>First of all to make sure folks know - Craig and I have worked together, are friends, often have lunch together and generally see eye to eye on issues. I say this as a sort of recusal for those who might think we're just trying to falsely build VFP up.
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>>Now.. Craig, as to this matter of the number(s) of companies that are using Visual FoxPro let me ask you a question. You have that paper I gave you when we last had lunch that is a high level illustration of what I'm currently involved in.
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>>Let me ask you a question; Should the money continue to flow into development and we are able to put all the pieces in place, how many VFP programmers do you think I would be able to hire?
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>Well, the answer is, as most everything else, "it depends". *g*. You can I both know that you'll always be able to find more VB programmers than VFP. However, that doesn't mean you should throw everything away and start over in VB. You're doing some very, very cool stuff. Just keep down your current path.

Exactly. If I need more VFP programmers and they aren't out there I'll make some or buy some. <g> If I don't need them, who cares?? That's a worry for tomorrow, not today.

If this works I have figured that I could conceivably hire 50-100 full time programmers, most VFP folks. Will we look at alternative products? Of course!

I hope it happens but I need to take care of today for tomorrow to happen, which is my "angle" on all of this. Do your best today and tomorrow will take care of itself.