>>MS has discontinued support for FP DOS 2.6, but I still have apps running just fine. Does that make me an idiot for making the decision for providing my customers with a FPD 2.6 app just becaus MS no longer supports it? I hardly think so.
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>Yes, but would you start new, enterprise-wide development in Fox 2.6? I sure wouldn't, and wouldn't think less of my superiors for making a similar decision.

Joe,

I happen to agree with Mark's assessment. An like Craig, says, who's to know if Java will be alive in 5 years.

In retrospect I should not have written those applications in Clipper several years ago because Clipper is not a viable solution today? Well, Cliupper was a very viable tool at the time. Same reasoning goes for FPW2.6 or maybe Turbo Pascal.

The question is if the tool is right for the job. Is the best suited for the job? Is actively supported by the manufacturer? You know, from Ballmer's mouth, that they are commited and there will be a new version (VFP8). What's to happen after that? Who knows? Nobody has a working crystal ball. Does Ballmer really know if VS.Net will catch on in the Enterprise and in a few years will have a great portion of the market, putting the Suns, Oracles, Linuxes of this world out to pasture and keep Microsoft on top? He sure hopes so (and so do I as I'm a stockholder in Microsoft and not in any of the other companies, plus I invested my professional life intro Microsoft languages). Do we know what the future holds? Not!