>The bottom line...the Fox developer who took the advise to learn VB and to expand his/her toolset back in the late 90's - is in FAR better shape today than the Fox developer who kept his/her head in the sand...

I'm using VFP in an IBM mainframe environment to extract data from VSAM data files and provide users with ad-hoc query/browsing capabilities on their PC's ... doable in Access ... easy in VFP ... difficult/impossible in VB.

You have a limited concept of "data management / info mining" ...