While VFP's OOP design is highly functional, VFP7 has had very minor change since the release of VFP5 about 4 years ago. It is now being overtaken by the pouring in of much richer OOP functionality of VB.NET and this to me seems to be the "Begining of the end". Also, if you consider the improvement of VB.NET over VB6, it is over 10 times greater than the improvement of VFP7 over VFP6.