>What is a suitable replacement for VFP to learn. Certainly not VB or Access. I don't want to learn C. Delphi seems to be waning in popularity. So where do we go if VFP goes? Currently I'm learning PHP with mysql. It seems to me that they are unlikely to go because they are open source and not tied to the whims of any companies' marketing department.


MY suggestion is that if you are only seeking one alternative is to get into ORACLE. Mr. Ellison's product is a long way from being a niche product and in gaining prominence in the database arena. Its new Clustering, java, and etc. capabilities are becoming quite popular, though the learning curve is rather steep, and the Designer/developer 2000 applications are rather kludgy to use.
Oracle is run mainly via a collection of SQL scripts, and once they are mastered, the process becomes fairly straight forward. Also ORacle developers are averaging larger salaries than average for VFP developers.

According the the current issue of Info World, The new Microsoft C# is being described as a compiled version of the older Javascript. This was an interesting read, as I remember FoxPlus' big advantage over dbase was the compiler. Maybe history is repeating itself a little here.