PMFI...in addition to other explanations, I think there's a correlation between plans for new publications and growth/expansion of the technology.

While VFP8 was an impressive upgrade, the new capabilities were superbly covered by a series of articles from Code Magazine last summer. They amounted to the size of a single magazine issue, and were thorough enough that it really wasn't necessary for me to buy the VFP8 book from Hentzenwerke (though I did anyway).

Quite simply, there just isn't the promise of enough 'new' stuff to write about. I think that will likely be the case for VFP9. When one really looks at the overall picture and the recent trends, this announcement shouldn't come as a big surprise.

Slightly off topic but worth mentioning...some of the best books I've seen have been VFP books (Griver's codebook, Hacker's Guide, the Prima book that JVP co-authored, a BUNCH from hentzenwerke, going back earlier, Les Pinter). As far as I'm concerned, they raised the standard for providing meaningful information to intermediates who wanted to move beyond.

I'd pay twice the retail price for a Hacker's Guide to C#/ADO.NET/etc. Tamar, any chance you have a twin on the .NET side? ;)

While there are some good .NET books out there (new stuff from aPress looks good, and Kevin/Cathi's book is good), I think the .NET book market got flooded with excessive remixes of the on-line help, and some pretty weighty advanced books...but not enough 'in between'. This was always the strength of VFP publications.

Kevin