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>Here's an interesting idea that is more in line with Microsoft's strategic focus: How about Microsoft promoting VFP as a great front-end to SQL Server and spending tons of money advertising that fact? How many of the VFP faithful would like that approach? How many would still castigate the VFP marketing people for promoting SQL Server over "pure" Fox?

I think that is a good idea. However, it would have to be pretty much a middleware product because it (now) lacks native hooks into the common .NET library. VFP is great for setting up remote views and running all kinds of queries against SQL server, but its only leg up on most .NET languages is the native cursor manipulation capability. The UI is not .NET UI, however, and that will doom VFP into a .NOT. .NET (read: niche) market.

IMO VFP can not (and maybe should not) compete against the huge, rich and rapidly evolving .NET common library of Windows & Web forms and their widgets, data access methods, web service wizards, etc. etc., at least in the long run (2+ years).

I wonder if I can get an asbestos suit fitted for my 6'3" frame?

Pertti