>That is a huge bug fix list.
Hmmm. Phrases like 'people in glass houses' springs to mind here.
Also, it is a bug FIX list, which is nice:)

>I don't see many significant new features,
Let me see, dbase had oop before VFP, data objects before VFP8, subforms (not in VFP), oop report writer (not in VFP), 2 way edit tools (not in VFP),
decent query builder before VFP8, better web functionality already built in, rather than getting AFP or WW, more internal controls, e.g. treeview. Future versions are pointing to OS and Database independence.


>and I don't see VFP developer deciding that dBase is a better tool to use
I think so, and I have been with Fox since FoxBase 2.1 (actually I used Foxbase 1 on SCO Xenix/Unix - imagine dBaseIII in monochrome with Vi as an editor - Ouch!)

>since Borland killed dBase (or before).
Actually Borland sold the product, so its no longer theirs. If you look at VFP history, until you came along there had only been slow progress.
Lets face it, intellisense should have been in ver 6, if not 5 when it was introduced to VB, and the db/table/query/view/report and menu designers should have been replaced ages ago. (and VFP3 should probably have not even been released!)
To be honest, I prefer smaller companies, they are more dynamic and more responsive to requests from their customers - they have to be to survive. VFP has been in such a backwater at MS that I think if you had not come along it would have died.


>It would be interesting to know how many dBase developers attended that conference
How many VFP developers go to non-VFP specific events?

Regards

Malc