>The only sensible advice is to STAY PRODUCTIVE. If you already have a VFP version and want to deliver to customers in the near future, VFP is the sensible option.

Thank you John for your valuable input.

To be productive, this makes sense - staying with VFP.
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>You hear a lot of talk about dotNET here from people who have not themselves deployed a dotNET app. I have. It isn't easy, it is extremely costly and slow. I have posted elsewhere that a dotNET app we completed can process 1 word document per second on a P4 heavy server, the existing VFP version on my P3 notebook can process many per second. What will your customer think of that?

Do customers really look at these issues or do they simply look at what the "current fad" is? I'm not sure.

>IMHO this will change. MS isn't stupid, they are learning from our bad experiences and dotNET V2 is on the way. It has changes that improve the business proposition considerably. IMHO you would be wise to look closely at dotNET (and at Java for that matter) once V2 is here.

Thanks again. I hope more of our senior VFP developeres contribute to this statement. Are you suggesting abandoning VFP and considering Java/dotNet? Would this mean that applications will have to be rewritten? Cost? Impact to customers and the developer? Specially the small time developers?
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>But don't be stampeded. You do not buy a new car every time you see a model with shinier paint. You consider, analyse, make a decision. Sticking with your existing model is often the most sensible option. Sticking with your existing model does not automatically mean you "have your head in the sand". It may mean you are concerned about the reliability of the new model and want to see how it pans out.
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Makes sense to me. Others?

>Be assured that VFP will not die tomorrow and it is still as good as it was the day you bought it.

Will be stay forever, so that small time devlopers can continute to make a living using VFP?

John - thank you again for your input. Please continue to provide your input so that all concerened may benefit from this discussion. Thanks again.