Which reminds me. I'm think of promoting a contest, hopefully with the help of the UT: VFP vs .NET

Bottom line is that I am willing to put up $50,000.00 that I can develop a distributed, smart-client, database application (SQL Server, of cource) using VFP9 which will be faster, more scalable, more reliable, more robust, easier to maintain, and in less time than the same application developed in .NET using either C# or VB.

If you want to go more than $50k, I can arrange it. If you want to go less than $50k, that's fine too but, please, no less than $25k. We will get a third party to spec the app.

So, Kevin, are you willing to put $$$ on where you think your mouth is?

Assuming you're not rockin' the gonja or watching reruns of "Smokey and the Bandit", can you point to a prior "contest" that contained detailed, agreeable terms to cover every point you just mentioned? You actually want to have a contest, between two apps, with every term you described?

To answer your specific question, aside from the occasional dinner bet on a football game, I don't gamble. Period.

On Saturday, I'm presenting three .NET sessions at MSDN CodeCamp in Edison, New Jersey. They use a demo distributed app that I wrote in .NET as a "teaching app". It's based on an actual app I wrote for a construction company.

Very soon I'm going to make the app available to the community. That's significantly more beneficial than a "contest"...
wouldn't you agree, Mr Pace?

Kevin