>>Can you back that up?
>One way: look at DICE.COM how may companies looking for JAVA talent as compare to C and C++ combined, or VB?

No, thats not one way to see who is playing catch up at the technical level. Available jobs is completey irrellevant. Nice try though.

>VFP is not a .Net tool because it does not compile to CLR.

Thats not the issue. THe issue is, why does it need to, and if it doesn't, why are you so sure that it spells disaster for VFP? I'm looking for logical reasons, not just FUD.