>I believe all through this thread, the conversation has been about VFP in general, and not all that specific to the upcoming release, which I assume the Fox Team is concentrating on. We (the developer community) have made our living with this product, therefore it is about as important to us as it is the the MS team. In my own case, I am not an incidental VFP user, it is my mainstream, and has been for years. When the product was bundled with Vstudio, it was relatively easy to make performance and ease of development comparisons among the other consitiuent applications. Now that is has been odd manned out, it may well turn out to be the greatest thing since the explosion on the mountaintop, and I hope it is, but I am interested in ammunition to counter the perceptions that are creeping into the fron office, where they perceive that VB/SQL is the future of the database application, when only a year or so ago it was VFP/SQL.

Douglas, I don't think MS is pushing VB/SQL anymore. .NET has really changed their favoritism with any one language/product. They would probably be pushing VB.NET+SQL2000/MSDE as much as ASP.NET+SQL2000/MSDE or C#+SQL2000/MSDE so you need not worry about MS pushing their VB-centric view through their marketing channels.

In terms of the VFP/SQL combination I think that is just as popular now as it has ever been and I don't see people abondoning it because of MS marketing (or lack thereof).

In any event, lets just hope that .NET takes off so we don't have to deal with a real learning curve - switching over to Java! MS and .NET has an uphill battle in front of them!

-JT