Jess,

>>2. You've tried to talk people into VB6 because VFP would die soon. Fact: VB 6 is dead and VFP could not be more alive than today.

>VB6 is dead but VB in general will live longer than VFP :-). I am looking at VFP as dead man walking today... And I don't know if there is a miracle coming for it to ressurect. VFP8... I don't know if MS can get significant no. to upgrade once release because at that time majority of VFPers will be comfortable with C#.Net or worst case VB.Net, or other languages. I might be wrong though. Try to be open minded and you will feel what's really happening in the development arena.

I don't believe that. For a awfull lot of tasks there is no convinient alternative than using VFP. Take alone the fact how VFP handles data in cursors and the rich and fast DML. Maybe .NET will offer something sumilar effective in the future, but until then there is no alternative.

I don't agree with the deadman walking. VFP 8 is beeing developed and will probably released somewhere next year. That will be good enough to justify at least 3 more years of VFP development. After that, we will have to wait and see.

If you're really open minded, you won't regard VFP to be a deadman walking.

Walter,