Hi james,

>You may not see any reason to go to .Net in the current situation you are in. However, what about the people whose situation matches what Kevin describes? Or, lives in an area which puts them in the situation Kevin describes? What about the developer that could have taken on a project but has to turn it down because they are not proficient enough in .Net?

People should know themselves what to do, esspecially if people are presenting them as programmers. If they just take blindly advise from anyone else, then I don't think much of their quality of programming and problem solving.

>You're right, .Net is not the only answer to make a living,

That is my point. .NET (in it current state) might not be the answer people are thinking it is.

>and I haven't seen either of the Kevins state that it was.

Qoute: "But the bottom line is this: as time passes, more and more Fox people will find themselves in situations where they need to learn .NET skills to maintain their careers."

>Perhaps a developer is familiar with Java and PHP but now wants to add some .Net to their skill set. If someone chooses to make a living with .Net as well as VFP should they be blasted on this forum? What about some who chooses to help those that wish to expand their skill set to include .Net (and do it in such a way that it would benefit FoxPro developers more than it would developers of any other language)? Should that person be blasted as well, for helping or offering help to VFP developers?

I generally have no problem and I'm not flaming kevin for that. Though I wonder if the VFP forum is the right place for such announcements. If a VFP programmer is interested in .NET he'll read the same message from the .NET forum. IMO, there is no need to push this down the throat of all VFP forum subscribers.

Walter,