>Our group just purchased Version 8.0 for all our programmers. I was wondering if when Version 9.0 came out will be able to receive it free.

If it is not to late to return them, I would purchase an equivalent number of MSDN Professional licenses. Then you will get VFP 8 now AND VFP 9 when it comes out. Plus you would get so much more software that all your programmers can use. The cost would probably be about the same as buing the VFP 8 licenses now and VFP 9 upgrades later.