Jos,

>>What interests me is what are the compelling reasons to move to .Net?

Depends who is deciding. The most compelling reason for a decisionmaker to move from VFP to dotNET might be to increase the pool of available developers- not just the expensive local ones but the legions of graduate programmers in the 3rd world. Expensive local developers might like to think about that. "Out of the frying pan into the fire"? ;-)

I still think that before starting over with a new language, experienced programmers need to take more of a "helicopter view" of their work and opportunities. Would it be possible to leverage themselves another rung up the development ladder. System design and scoping is a cool area that is usually too risky to offshore. And there is a shortage of good project managers all over the world- one day this will be recognised as one of the major failings of the IT age. Both professions earn lots of $ and get weekends off.

Regards

j.R