I suppose we will get it when we get it. No point in holding your breath.
To me, I am hoping there was time to test it to death, and not require early service packs, and production can commence with applications for distribution.

If indeed a measurable amount of developer time can be saved by this new release, then VFP may well speak for itself in the market place. Remember, The bean counters are listened to.

It was interesting the learn that a VFP developer was hired over another candidate with more experience, for the reason that this person could bring with them, an extensive personal library of reusable code snippets.

Tongue in cheek recommendations:

For simple collections of small amounts of data, mostly for indivudual use and occasionally a file is shared. Rocket scientist not required to do development:

Access

For serious mid scale database, which can include functions for auto updating, data can be shared among many users, where lookup speeds, low development cost. easy to maintain, and is readily scaleable to the large user or on the other end data can be distributed in subsets for local use:

Visual Fox Pro

For web accessable data, a VFP back end with a Java or Cold Fusion front end, easily scalable to SQL server, Sybase, and Oracle.

For really big, and virtually bulletproof data warehousing across multiple servers/locations, available to thousands of simultaneous users, server clustering and management, and of course web enabled:

Sorry, Microsoft,

Oracle 8i

It goes without saying that Oracle development is expensive, kludgy, and slow.
but, hey, they are the big guy in databases these days.