Jeff,

>>It's still a much smaller boat (VFP) dwarfed by comparison to the VB life raft (VB.NET). There will be a lot more VB 6.0/VB.NET development than there will ever be VFP so don't get too smug.
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>I'm not so sure... I'd venture to say that before .NET, the number of VB developers who could achieve a meaningfull database app (from start to finish) was much smaller than the number of VFP developers doing the same.
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>I firmly believe that the number of VB developers have been grossly overstated by MS. Where I work, there are at least six guys who have worked with Access running querries and custom reports. MS would consider these guys as "VB Programmers". Hell, they don't even consider themselves as programmers and for them doing stuff with VB.NET? Please.....................

I'm currently of the opinion that .NET will cause the same kind of shakeout in the VB world that going visual did for VFP. A lot of folks never really did move their skill sets forward. I think that at that point in time VFP's star will rise more than most folks have anticipated. Maybe we should call it Visual Phoenix. <g>