>I don't know how it works, but if you'd ask any IT manager which happens to know about FoxPro or Dbase they label it outdated purely because it comes from another age. C/C++ is another issue. They're not used by developers trying to make database applications. "Life is too short to programm in C/C++". As for visual basic, yep you've got a point. VB is the strategic general purpose development which is fairly easy to learn. VFP isn't a general purpose language and should not be marketed as such. VFP is about data, and is damn good about that.

I also use VB but I do not consider myself as more proficient in it than VFP. And to my assessment, it's the contrary. VFP is easier to learn than VB. It's Robert Green who concluded that.
Hierarchy from easiest to hardest to learn:
ACCESS
VFP
VB
VC

>Who cares about the clouds ? If VFP is the best choice now, then use VFP. Nobody can look into the future. It's no use trying to implement a new traject in something as unsure as the .NET version 1 framework. If you do, you'd probably rewrite it in within 2 years with .NET 2 or any of its succesors: 1. because now you're not proficient with .NET and 2. because there will be major enhancements/bugfixes and changes in the .NET framework to be expected.

Just let you know that we are not yet converting our apps into .NET. We are in the process of learning .NET. Why send a soldier into the battle if he is not yet ready. We are at bleeding time which better than just starting one year or two years from now.

>Don't forget, it can never have the marketing VB has. VB is general purpose and the strategic language of MS. That will never change. VFP however is a product specialized on data and will be marketed as such. I think we should give Ken the opportunity to prove himself.

Don't you know that C# and VB.Net are now considered as Data Centric language? And MS will market it that way. I have no doubt what Ken can do. It's the $ they have in the pocket to market it that I doubted.

>Since I really have faith in the work of Ken I have another opinion. It will not be easy and I won't expect to see a major change because that is impossible. We should realize that VFP is not MSs strategic language, but certainly does have the right to exist.

Yup. But Ken can only do so much.