>>> It was very recently that Steve Ballmer said that small/medium business is MS' biggest market segment. As that sinks in at MS there may still be hope to see the CLR changed to support things like .DBFs and to have a VFP server and such. Or there may be other ways to bring VFP into the .NET fold. After all, MS makes these rules up and has the power to do whatever it wants. <<
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>#1, that hasn't happened and probably won't happen. #2, we as VFP developers don't want it to happen. As George explains better than I could, .NET-ifying VFP would be its death knell. It would lose everything that makes it unique. It would be no more than a watered-down VB.

Man it's hard to break through pre-conceived ideas, even with direct words!
You, based on your reference to GeorgeT, are stuck on CLR meaning LOSS of VFP's DML capabilities (at least) even though I specifically said 'to support things like DBFs'.
.NET and CLR are whatever MS wants them to be. I'm sure MS is going to have some .NET products (Office.NET comes to mind) that will not be platform agnostic. Why couldn't VFP be too????

DREAM A LITTLE. After all, MS and KenL in particular were firm that there was ONLY to be beta distribution at DevCon. But some people (not me, sadly) persisted, kept the dream alive, and the rest is history.