Well its nice to see how these different technologies can be integrated via xml web services.
I worked for a company that kept its main system in clipper. They never tried to move it? Why? THe system got so big over the years that they could not be able to pull the business logic from it. There were tons of spaghetti code allover the places. Definately job security for clipper folks over there.
So its not that easy to move the monster to a modern platform.