Please let us know what you decide re getting VFP going on Linux, vs starting anew in a dedicated Linux tool. Are you contemplating PHP or Kylix or what? I had a staff member who swore by PHP and threw together database stuff as quickly as we used to in Fox... except everything was in a sort of collection and required explicit referencing. Those who leave VFP will remember SCAN FOR... WHILE... ENDSCAN with great fondness, I think.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1