John,

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>IMO if MSFT wants to really push VFP 8 then they should consider 'spiffs' for promoting it to their reps. But, that's not my balliwick.
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>The people MSFT is interested in selling VFP 8 to already use VFP.

What do you base this assertion on, or is it gratuitous? <g>

>Of the people that use VFP, I would bet a fair amount of switched to MSDN and the medium of distribution. For these folks, the sales process is largely complete. The only upsell I can see is if the person has a Professional Subscription, they get upsold on an Enterprise Subscription.

Well, perhaps MSDN is a better medium of delivering VFP but the problem I see there is that when you do this you also distribute VB, MASM and so forth so your numbers can get skewed quite quickly. What direction they get skewed, if they do, is I suppose in the eye of the beholder. IOW, maybe all those MSDN subscriptions are VFP folks as opposed to VB folks and then we could say that VFP is outselling VB, if you catch my drift.

I'd be surprised if there weren't other indicators that MSFT is using to guage the useage level of VFP, VB and the rest.