>I have no argument there ... VFP is a great development tool, and inexpensive (when compared to things like SQL Server). But it can't be all-things-to-all-people <

That's how .NET is marketed....

>>...web-enable a VFP app?<<

There's Web Connection.
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>>Within this enormous FUD campaign, MSFT can't specifically cite how small businesses can save money going to .NET. You know why? Because they can't.<
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> Our customers don't care what language the app is written in.<<

When I refer to small businesses, I'm referring not to development shops, but the very businesses that MSFT is touting .NET toward in their FUD advertising -- bicycle shops and whatnot. They do not save money going to .NET to do their inhouse development.
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>>There's a lot of Dot-Coms that got seed money to buy expensive, new, proprietary development tools -- and failed.<
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>Sorry, I don't see what this has to do with anything that's being discussed. ...Could you explain this statement?<<

Gartner already explained it for us in their "Beware of .NET Sticker Shock" research paper.

Bill Anderson