John,

>The point is that it does not matter how many people upgraded to 7. And, the #'s you are asking for are confidential. Being a member of a community is not going nor should it garner you any special privledges.

I know it, for sure, but wish you got the essence of my message.

As Gérald (Santerre) said, there should be a smarter question. I agree, and here, I hope, are some, to replace my initial one ("How many people purchased/upgraded to VFP 7?"):

1) The number of people upgrading to VFP 7 is near (40%, 60%,...) the number of people using previous versions of VFP?
2) The number of people using VFP is growing?
3) What is the estimated percentage of current VFP developers that will continue to use it in the next, say, two or three years?
4) Those who have been traditionally using VFP, still use it as their #1 choice tool?

Of course, it should be understood that there is no numeric answer to any of the questions above, and so they shouldn't be answered, rather I ask what folks think about the questions. The point here is:

1) What's happenning to the average VFP developer (he/she could still be called a genuine VFP developer)?

2) Will they continue to be VFP developers, or they're slowly shifting to "new technologies", for new apps they develop, just keeping VFP as a legacy option? (as you said: "...If I did start hanging around again, it would definitely be from the standpoint of helping VFP developers make the transition to .NET, should that be what they want. In addition, I would definitely help to evangelize VB in the face of what I see to be misguided reasons for leaning toward C# ... Where you have idle time, you should invest it in learning .NET, and specifcally, VB In my opinion." - Message 655902 - is this a trend?)

3) It is worth (for MS) to keep a evolutionary path in VFP improvements? ("Interesting observation: Look at this year's devcon in Orlando. By my count, roughly 25% of the content is devoted to pure Fox. The other 75% is devoted to either .NET, SQL Server, or using Fox with either/both of those technologies. If that does not explain loud and clear where things are going, I don't know what does.?" - Message 655902 - is this a trend, too?)

4) Who is leaving who? (MS leaving VFP or VFP developers leaving VFP, therefore...)

I still use VFP, more than ever, and have no plans at all to leave it (believe it or not there is a big market where I live for desktop/file server/client/server apps, where nothing can beat VFP), and there is no passion in this statement, if reflects a commercial decision.

Fernando