I think it's also fair to mention that of all the meeting I've attended where dotnet is the focus, not once as a question been raised about inadequate data handling.

One of the events was a MSDN event for VS 2005. I walked around during break asking as many as I could about the type of apps they were working on. Lo and behold, everyone described an app that dealt with some type of client data.

You're absolutely right....

I've attended about 6 or 7 community events this year, and have spoken with people writing all sorts of business apps with .NET and (usually) SQL Server. Go up to GotDotNet, or the newsgroups, or MSDN blogs, and you see all sorts of people talking about their apps. You can see the excitement, the energy, the exchanging of ideas, the discussion about solving problems...sound familiar? ;)

It just strikes me as funny that so many people are building applications with it, and yet we have a very small minority of people who are so convinced that it's insufficient for building apps. I guess 98% of the world can't be right. <s>

Kevin