>>> Some time ago you said that you wanted all the community to help. How can we help if we don't know what you're doing to promote VFP. Perhaps you could tip us on how to help you promote it.
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>The number one way for the community to help is for people to help convince other VFP developers who have not upgraded to VFP 7.0 yet to do so.
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>>> What is the overall plan to make VFP have a stronger place in the IT world. Because that's what is at stakes here. It's not just a matter of keeping the place occupied so far but to make it bigger. What do you do to make that happen?
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>This is not likely to ever change significantly, but I do plan and hope to have more mentions about Toledo when it is released than was with VFP 7.0 since more planning and effort is going into Toledo, already started.

I understand that you don't want to throw VFP against .Net or SQL Server. For whatever reasons. If I'd be MS I'd probably do the same. Who wants to have one of his products compete with his other products. From a business standpoint it makes a lot of sense.

MS has compared SQL Server with Oracle (benchmarks...)
MS has compared Windows with Linux (articles...)
Why have'nt MS compared VFP with Delphi, and other similar products based on the speed of the data engine?

There's an interesting market. Perhaps some are using Delphi because they like the RAD tool but are not satistified with it's data engine speed. Anyway you're the marketing guy you figure out the rest of that campaign ;-)