John,

Thought that when you said "Maybe being regarded as "obsolete" isn't an issue after all..." you meant a reference to VFP (because of your provocative message's title "VFP obsolete?").

I'm very glad with this thread, thanks to you, because it makes people think about this subject once more. Ken Levy participated in this thread and your reply to him ("There is a difference between being obsolete and being regarded as obsolete whether you are or not. The second is worse.") makes a good marketing point.

And when you say "Yes, the company has declared that it is going to produce dotNET and Java versions for this product. This is done as much for marketing reasons as any other; the market automatically accepts that innovative work can be done in Java or dotNET. It's just easier that way.", you reinforce that point even more.

Hope you didn't think I was criticising you.

Regards,

Fernando