>Do you really believe there are as many Fox opportunities as there were say 5-7 years ago?
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John,

No not as many but the change is nowhere near what you are proposing. Statistics can be twisted to show almost whatever the interpreter wants to demonstrate. VFP has always been a poor step child in the list of languages.

Nobody here is arguing with you about where the future is, however we are arguing about the degree of doomsayer you show towards VFP. I don't see any reason to abandon VFP right now. Even though I am learning .NET, I am also using VFP to do what it does best. There still is no challenger to VFP's string handling speed, and VFP is the only tool in the MS box that has its own local data engine for metadata that doesn't need ODBC or OLEDB top get at the metadata.