>Yeah, I recently noticed a v9 had been announced.
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>I'm a bit bitter at the moment, our company may be changing languages from VFP, and after noticing all the cool features in v8 I'm a bit miffed, waiting all this time for those lovely in-build features and all, and then my company goes and considers a decision like switching languages.

It took me about 4 years to convice managment that VFP was the best upgrade path (rather than Access) to take our office's dBase5 apps into the future. Hang in there; don't give up now!