> That should matter to anyone who has plans for building or buying applications and services based on VFP.

Frankly, I don't see this as anything to worry about until this much predicted "Fox Armageddon" materialzes.

Lets imagine what will transpire should that fateful day arrive....

My copy of fox will not cease to function, nor will any of the apps I have built with it. I can still build as many new apps as I want. Unless there is some incredible shift in the way applications, databases, queries, and connectivity work, VFP is still going be the solution for just as many problems it is now. I doubt such a shift will occur any time soon...most of the the other languages out there are sitting on the same conceptual foundation. Relational Databases, HTTP, TCP/IP, SQL, XML. None of these are going to simply dissapear on the day MS decides to drop VFP.

Worst case scenario, I won't be able to sell apps to people that spout buzzwords they read in Info World...a clientelle I try to avoid anyhow. Why deal with stupid, annoying people of you dont have to? Let them pair up with their buzzword-spouting developer counterparts...everybody will be happier that way. If it don't work out for 'em, I get to come in and clean up, after management runs off the spouters. It's been my experience that competant business owners could give a flying fig HOW you make something happen...just that you make it happen on time and within budget.

Should some whizbang technology develop, that you simply can't implement in fox, you can still use your existing fox components for everything else. Thats the beauty of interoperability.

If MS decides to drop fox, I know I'm going to have a couple years at least to figure out whatever new development environment I decide to go with. I see no reason to panic and batter my brain against something as raw as this version of .net is, on the off chance that MS will drop VFP at some unspecified time. I don't discount the possiblity that they will do just that, but I see no reason to have a panic attack about it either.