This really isn't true, at least for my present company. We have added several Fortune 500 companies in the last year and had the best year ever and, guess what, our desktop app is written in VFP5. The clients are much more interested in reputation and quality than if we're developing with Microsoft's latest offerings...
>>>Except that in many cases, VFP itself will make things a non-starter.
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>>We actually just experienced this recently. The prospective client stated major technological concerns over our application being in VFP, "a product that is no longer supported by Microsoft." Even after sending them (via the salesman) a link to the MSDN page that explicitly stated the upcoming v9 release and support of v8 through 2010, it seems their opinion didn't change much.
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>At some point, it will dawn on people that the whole "supported until 2010" rhetoric will not play. Nor does the Fox website on MSDN play. IMO, these updates and related items are paciifcation devices that are for the consumption of current VFP users ONLY. I/T decision makers could give a rip about news from the product manager or the fact that the product is "supported" until 2010. Looking at what the product does as compared to what they need - they decide to go elsewere based on that - and that alone.