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Without getting involved in the qualitative aspects of the VFP vs .NET wars........
The concept of moving to a new environment because "Microsoft says to" reminds me of the migration from DOS to Windows. Before Windows was anything near ready as a viable platform I was having to provide our senior executives with new (read expensive) workstations so that they could run Windows. The applications they ran????????
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There was no way I could convince them to wait a year and save over 1,000 per machine (or spend the same money on twice the machine).
I agree with you. Regardless of the technical merits, many executives are forcing the migration to .NET so they can say they're on the leading edge of Microsoft technology.
>That's easy - many organizations follow Microsoft today as they once did for IBM. Let's say Microsoft pushed VFP instead of .NET. You can bet a lot of shops would be jumping all over themselves trying to implement VFP. In other words, it's less for the technical merits, in a lot of cases, and more because it's the latest and greatest from MS.
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