>Greetings colleagues,
>
>VB 5.0 continues to be object based, I believe. Microsoft has a White paper on selecting MS development tools accessable in the VFP premium (owners) area of MS.
>
>Related to this subject is the fact that here in Washington, DC (on of the larget VFP markets in the U.S.) I see a noticable shift to VB 5.0. I believe that this trend is driven by Microsoft's marketing, and by the fact that VFP
>developers are difficult to find and cost more. Since VFP 5.0 allows apps to
>talk to MS SQL Server and Oracle, etc., VB 5.0 is beginning to take business away fro VFP 5.0.
>
>I talked to a developer who tours with Microsoft developer seminars promoting
>his company's product. He mentioned to me a few months ago that Microsoft STILL
>doesn't mentioned VFP 5.0 as part of it's enterprise solutions strategy.
>
>If you check out this month's (November's) FoxPro Advisor, an ad from Micromega
>for training classes mentions that they soon will have a class titled "Visual Basic for FoxPro developers (page 13).
>
>A word to the wise...

I do not see a correlation in your statement about VFP connectivity to Oracle, SQL Server, etc., and VB 5 beginning to take business away from VFP 5.0. This powerful feature is a great reason VFP is a solution for Client/Server applications.

I am for cross-training because (these days) developers usually need more than 1 tool for application development, especially web application development. I am sure Michel can vouch for that since the UT is a combination of many tools including VFP.