>What Paul said about FoxPro surviving from FoxBASE to VFP 5 all on its own merits is absolutely true. This said, it just makes my head reel to think how popular VFP would and should be, especially for companies like you've described, if M$ had promoted it as well as they have VB. These companies have shunned VFP because the implied message from M$ all these years has been that it's a platform to shun because it will never survive. Personally, I think things have started to take a turn for the better for VFP promotion by M$ but it's still not enough. I get the impression that when the next versions of VFP and Visual Studio are released concurrently that there will be a bigger focus on VFP which is good. But that focus will only be noticed by developers unless M$ directs their VFP promotion towards the user market (our potential clients) as a great tool for developing custom apps. We all know VFP is great, M$ needs to let everyone else know that VFP is great. :-)

Well done. I'll drink to that. At this rate, I think we'll be able to put a document together out of this thread and forward it to Microsoft. This might not be a bad idea after all.