Hi Craig:

There will always be exceptions on both sides of any given argument. I responded to the "all or nothing" air of his post to simply point out that in my experience it has been different. Some of my experience in dealing with smaller clients was that they didn't care, however; most of the large multi-national firms we deal with (and being in the mutual funds industry, you'd know their names), do care. We had to promise to move from VFP to .net to get one of our biggest clients to accept our software.



>I have to agree with you that customers are much more Tech-Savy than in years gone by and dealing with IT departments is pretty likely on medium-large projects. However, the comment about "laugh you out of their office" regarding VFP is simply erroneous. I have a client (NDA bars me from disclosing their name) that is one of the world's largest mutual fund companies (SEC filings of well over 300 billion), and they specifically requested VFP, and it is one of just a few developer tools approved by their IT department. In the end, it's all about what tool is best suited for the job. I doubt that I've persuaded you, but that's ok. I just didn't want future readers of this thread to see your post and believe it to be true, when it's not.