>Hello, Sergey,
>
>Thank you for answering.
>
>Well... I don't think that wish will be granted. In that case MS would launch a real competitor to msde or even sql server.

Yep.


>In my message I was talking about creating one (open-source, maybe?)
>
>What do you think?

Looks like there's such third party product already. Check http://www.mesa-vista.com/.
I would rather use SQL Server as backend and we're moving our applications over to SQL Server with VFP8 frontend right now.