From: "Joe Barr" 

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6869

In the past few weeks, this story has appeared on The Register, Slashdot,
LinuxWorld and even the German publication Heise Online. That's pretty
amazing considering Microsoft has done its best the last few years to keep
Visual FoxPro, one of its most powerful development tools, off the radar
screen. Why would they do that? One simple reason: money. An application
developed in Visual FoxPro is much more economical for a business, as
Visual FoxPro has its own data handling and storage capabilities. Contrast
that with the much more popular tool Visual Basic, which requires a
separate data engine (usually Microsoft SQL Server). Microsoft makes a lot
more money selling licenses for SQL Server, which are quite expensive, than
they do when VFP applications are distributed, requiring no additional
license fees. So which solution do you think Microsoft is going to promote?
The fact that Visual FoxPro has a rich set of development tools and a
robust object-oriented programming language doesn't concern them; they
simply want the highest license fees they can squeeze out of their
customers.

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