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The hard part is educating management that VFP is still very valuable for the data processing and interface parts of the system.
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Greg,

I am sure it is extremely hard. But let me ask you this in light of the fact that other tools can handle data processing and UI.

Do you spend lots of time "trying" to educate and possibly lose a sale or do you present an option based on a toolset that is more pallatable to management?

Having been on the management side, and based on my background, I can tell you that there is no argument a consultant could put forward that would make Fox "the" compelling choice of toolset - at the expense of other options. For example, how could a Fox consultant counteract a question that asks why MS does not promote Fox? Or better yet, how would a Fox consultant handle this question:

"At the PDC, MS stated that all development for Windows is migrating to managed code and as such - you all need to be making plans to shift to managed code. That said, if Fox is not going to be based on managed code, how can you say that the product will be supported in the long term?"

All that said, VFP is a good tool for what it does. At the same time, the reason why it is hard to educate on the utility of Fox is because there are compelling and legitimate arguments that can be put forth that end up in decisions not to use the product.