>What if MSFT realizes that despite their own marketing hype .NET does not address all the things that VFP does and that to abandon VFP would be to expose an Achilles heel in the non-enterprise database market, that may be quickly filled by a competitor.
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>All interesting thoughts to ponder.....

Indeed. No matter what comes along with newer, higher-tech stuff, there's still gonna be a need for Mom & Pop sized apps for many years, that Mom & Pop can afford, and do things that Mom & Pop's friendly neighborhood developer can't do with something so amateurish as MS Access. The Fox fills that role, and will for a long while. No point in MS handing the Mom & Pop business to someone else - I believe that's why it was acquired to begin with, eh?