This comes outta the "Further VFP Dissing" thread...Craig's post about a "niche" product put a fire under me :-) Agree or disagree with the following:

We (VFP developers) don't want a niche product as long as we're the ones who have to expend all of the effort to define that niche. It's not fair to us as, for the most part, team players in Microsoft's DNA scheme to be classified as such.

We understand that VFP must work and play well with others. We don't mind using VFP as middleware in a 3-tier solution; we don't mind creating COM Servers for VB apps.

We need Microsoft to support us. I think we've hung in there a long time with little or no market support or press release support or white paper support. Microsoft needs to strongly define a role for VFP and vocally support that role. If Microsoft really wants to kill VFP then they should be honest about that and kill it.

Some people say the VFP is in the coffin already and I guess that makes Tahoe a gilded, bronzed coffin. I don't believe it; but it'd sure be nice for the product owners to support that belief.