Jeff,

I'm starting a new thread, in response to the following message I received from you (Message #1058540)

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?

I've given this some more thought, and I’d like to take you up on your offer. Only, however, under the following conditions:

1) No money is involved. This is purely an academic exercise

2) In addition to your terms “more scalable, more reliable, more robust, easier to maintain, and developed in less time than the application developed in .NET”, the following terms and conditions must be added:

- Application must be able to run on a mobile device and run in a browser (more marketable)
- Application must support asynchronous processing
- Application must be able to raise and respond to events

3) Also, the application MUST NOT USE ANY third party libraries, tools, or add-ons. This is straight VS.NET 2005 Enterprise Architect versus VFP9, with a SQL Server 2005 back-end , straight “out of the box”.


Can we agree on those conditions?

Kevin