And my answer to the question is ... exactly the same. <g> We develop a vertical market app, and most of our customers are slow technology adopters, so we have some time. Our next major upgrade will be developed with VFP 8/9, but I think in a couple of years we are going to migrate to something else. Within the past year or so (and even more so recently), it has become obvious to me that VFP doesn't have a strong future in the job market. I'm not complaining. The company I work for has been in business for twenty years, and has used xBase and it's predecessors from the beginning. But the time to move on is coming soon, so we'll see how things look in a couple of years. My feeling is that cross-platform development is going to become increasingly important, and MS seems to be offering more lock-in. Like you said, it'll be interesting.

>Wherever the market goes. <s>
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>Short-run: VFP is still the development system of choice for vertical market products where it doesn't make any difference what they're written in.
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>Short-run: converting VFP applications to .NET will be a good market for 5 years or so.
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>Medium-term: who knows. MS will have a great OS and great dev tools; Linux will have a great OS and good dev tools. It's really going to depend on Linux penetration on the desktop. That penetration is happening, and there's no telling how far it's going to go. In the state and local government market, Linux will likely be big, because money is tight. It's already started (Google on Largo FL Linux).
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>It'll be interesting.
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>>Hi Hank,
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>>So which way do you see yourself going in the future? .Net or Linux? Or both?
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