There is a widely held view that VFP has been in decline for a long time, and its future is surely in doubt. That is certainly my impression, but I know there are some who disagree...

I just don't get it.

1.) When you say "widely held view" do you mean, active VFP users, management, Gartner Group, general public?


2.) When you say "in decline" do you mean technologically speaking, # of application, MS sales, # of programmers??

As far as I can tell VFP in conjuction with frameworks or webConnection has the potential (and the realization) to make quite a nice living for the next few years. The fact that MS is pushing NET hard and not pushing VFP that hard just means that MS envisions more profitability from .NET (and a bunch of other products) than it does from VFP -- no more no less.

However, it seems that VFP is still in MS's game plan for the near foresable future. Why? Probably because it is a great product, has a great MS team and has a fanatical user base. That is pretty good. I will learn NET in the meantime and if MS dumps VFP I'll be ready.

Kevin