>(1) In the Devcon Keynote Speech video Ken Levy says he doesn't "do data". How can the program manager of a data oriented tool say such things?

That is a joke. Many years ago, I developed tools like the Class Browser and GenScrnX and I use to joke in my talks that I don't do data (as in customer/invoice data). Obviously I do data, every tool I've created for VFP involves data, and I wouldn't have developed applications full time with VFP from the 80s to 1999 if I didn't do data.