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>In a word, "Yes". If I had to pick the main reason I thought that VFP was a no-no in many corporations, DBF's is the reason. Yes you could still use VFP as a front end to SQL/Oracle. But many made the change to a tool such as VB when they made the change to upgrade the DB store.

And what would be the main reason making VB better to interact with SQL-Server than VFP?

Hmm this looks suspicious to me. Could that switch be put on the marketing over VB more than the deficiencies of VFP?

Too bad VFP was hated that much within MS. Who knows what a wonderful tools it could've become.