Hi,

This may sound weird or even stupid but...

Reading Ken Levy's message #875712 ("Whidbey Team Shows VFP No Respect") where he says:

"MDBs are used many times more than DBFs, and far more developers/users have Access on their machine than Visual FoxPro since it is included in Office."

made me wonder:

1. Microsoft doesn't seem to have plans to kill Access (ok, you'll say MS has no plans to kill VFP either!), just the opposite;

2. MDB and DBF are brothers or cousins or whatever, and since MS merged with Fox Software many things from FoxPro got into other MS technologies (Jet, SQL Server) so they seem to be converging (I might be wrong here...);

3. VFP will NEVER be a replacement to VB;

4. Access seems to be a widely accepted tool (?) by IT managers for small apps development and EVERYBODY knows it;

5. MS Office could play the role once Visual Studio (6) played in delivering and promoting (!) VFP;

Why not to unify both mdbs and dbfs and even Access and VFP, into a new thing (tool) as part of MS Office?

Fernando