Terry,

the enterprise spending drives (directly) the development tool market, not cosumer spending. Look at jobs posting - what skills are required in enterprise : Java, PHP, C#, etc. All of them are targeted towards the enterpise developer. I respect your opinion that client/server may be back, however I have different opinion: the future is in thin client, portal based, deployment free, service oriented and firewall friendly systems. VFP lives very well in this architecture - but only if you drop client-server or file-server approach.

I think it is not VFP, which fails to compete, not Microsoft which fails to promote VFP - it is a legacy approach to use VFP-based system which fails to deliver. If VFP developers would jump into contemporary enterise architecture, they would see that doors are widely open, they are back in the meetings and they win competition with Java camps. C# would greatly compliment (not substitute!) VFP, SQLServer would take care about data, and VFP developers would be busy doing the middle-tier...

Igor.