>>"....There are currently no plans to have Europa be based on or use the Windows .NET Framework"
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>>I still think this is a MAJOR blunder. I'm working on what will most likely be my last Visual Foxpro application because of this. If you're not compatiable with the rest of the world, the rest of the world will swallow you.
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>What is your definition of compatible? VFP can be used to create web services that can be consumed by .NET applications and it can consume web services created by .NET applications.

>'....Why does the CLR matter?"
cause everyone else is gonna be using it. Really it's a numbers game. If there are 1000 apps like that per 1 VFP app that means that there will be more jobs avail, and if you write something and get run over by a truck the people will have an eaiser time finding someone else to maintain it.