I've had that discussion with John Ryan yet he has several arguments that made no sense to me. JVP even asked me that last year when I stated I had gone to the MSDN 2005 event the day before. I found the level of energy to be very high. I've also found the level of discussion refreshing.

I also found it interesting interviewing over the last 2 months. Any person with VFP knowledge who was a well qualified developer, meaning they were a well rounded person in terms of technical knowledge, was very likely to have dotnet experience also.

They were willing to interview here for VFP just to see what was going on. In every one of those cases, if we did make an offer, it was turned down because the candidate had found a dotnet position they found more to their liking.

John Ryan is convinced that once you create apps in VFP, you just won't like developing in another language. I've witnessed exactly the opposite. Not one single time has someone asked or questioned how dotnet handles data.

We had a VB person working here for a while with VFP. Not once did he say anything about how he found VFP wonderful to deal with.

Several here are under the impression that LINQ is an admission that data and dotnet currently don't go together well. I see it as a marketing tool to give them a leg up on Java.


>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.
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>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.
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>You're absolutely right....
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>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? ;)
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>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>
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>Kevin