>Compelling features like the COM enhancements, Intellisense, XML functions, Web Service Publisher, TEXT TO, Intellisense, stability as Ken mentioned? Oh, did I say INtellisense? 7.0 defintially has (IMO, more than) its share of compelling features.

And of course many other new features in VFP 7.0 like 50 language/comment/class enhancements, OLE DB provider, event binding to other COM objects, DBC events, etc., all of which go towards deploying an application (runtime, not just features for developer productivity).