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We know that Fox is a niche language but we don't mind because it's a great tool that serve us very well. When another tool will be better, we will switch. That tool was NOT VB, but it may be .NET. .NET receive much more attention from the VFP community than VB ever had.
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A few points. First, don't confuse niche with marginalized. SAS is a niche tool. Clintrial is a niche tool. VFP OTOH, is NOT a niche tool. Are there a small number of opportunties for VFP? Yes - but that by no means there is great demand from a small segment of a larger market - which is what a niche is.

As somebody who programmed VB for a long time, I can tell you for many types of db-apps - VB was in fact - BETTER than VFP. Why in some cases was it better? Often, there was a good deal of technical justification. But in other situations, it was simply the fact that VFP was not an acceptable platform. Reasonable or unreasonable - that is they way it was - and is.