>DO NOT bet so much money and time on a dead FOX.

I disagree with your opinion. Here is some evidence to support the position that fox is not dead, but in instead alive, and apparently growing.

1) There are more VFP magazines now that ever
2) There are more VFP conferences now than ever
3) UT is a major VFP site and it continues to set records in its VFP forum
4) VFP user groups appear to be increasing
5) User group activity appears to be increasing
6) The Fox team is working on the next version of VFP, code-named Toledo
7) Steve Balmer, the top man at Microsoft has endorsed VFP
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/prodinfo/ballmer.asp
8) VFP has a higher profile within Microsoft. This is evidenced by the MVP summit. The Foxpro community was referenced several times during the event and Ken Levy had a (2 hour?) presentation on VFP webservices and the FoxPro community
9) VFP has a higher profile outside of Microsoft. This is evidenced by the cover story on MSDN magazine, announcement in MSDN flash newsletters, links on the Microsoft main page, links on the MSDN main page, the Microsoft store, the MSDN download section.
10) There are more high traffic VFP websites than ever. The UT, FoxWiki, VFUG, West-Wind and others.

FoxPro was one of the biggest if not the biggest dev environments in the late 80's early 90's and has shrunk to a more modest slice of the pie. It would appear that this slice is at least stable, but perhaps growing in the last few years.