Tracy,
>>To be fair, I find the attitude that VFP developers learning dotnet will mean the demise of VFP ridiculous.
I think we all find that ridiculous- all except those who come here to pretend that this is what we dumbos think.
As far as I can tell, the prevailing opinion here is that people want to stay alert, learn a bit about Java/Python/mySQL/dotNET/whatever, use other tools apart from VFP when it makes sense, but mostly to STAY PRODUCTIVE until the wind dies down and the terrain is easier to see. Which is ecactly what you said your company is doing.
Problems occur when silly people come here to tell us our heads are in the sand/we are no good at business/we are doomed/competitors using cool-dude-tool 1.1 will kill us/dotNET has no faults and needs no improvement/etc etc. For somebody who has never met any of us to burst in with all these predictions is the most ridiculous behaviour of all IMHO.
Regards
j.R
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
