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>Thank you for your comments Tracy.
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>A start would be first to reinstill the confidence in existing developers. Once we ourselves are confident, then the applications developed speak for themselves. And if the application works well, you have a satisfied client. Form thereon, its word of mouth - and thats the most powerful marketing tool. Comments?

I just have to say that I believe that the vast vast vast vast VAST majority of VFP Developers have full confidence in the product itself.

The applications that are currently in place **DO** speak for themselves - anyone using (or even seeing the use of) one knows this too.

The overriding problem is that, without marketing to non-adherents (of VFP) the product is either unknown or believed to be, by virtue of never hearing of the product in MS advertising to the general IS community, in its last throes as far as decision makers are concerned.