>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.
We sometimes speak biased because we don't know other tools than VFP. You will be ofcourse singing in a different tune if you know how to develop real world application using purely DELPHI. The VFP data engine while fast enough is not reliable.

>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.
Uncertainty of VFPs future scares a lot of developers and sometimes customers are who quite informed with software development stuff. How many deals we won't be able to close because certainty issues? Many...

>If you're really open minded, you won't regard VFP to be a deadman walking.
I could be wrong ofcourse but the trend shows otherwise.