Excellent post Craig. I can't count the number of times I've had to be the 'best damn water girl' money could buy because it was what the team or the client needed! :o) I can't say I always enjoyed it but I always learned from it.

>From my perspective it would be .NET as the client's needs, goals, and visions are paramount and are a very heavily weighted factor in the perspective I form. As a consultant I would provide them with the information that Visual FoxPro was a better fit, but as long as .NET was not leading the client and my company straight into a death march project I would support and implement the solution the client had chosen regardless of the one that I personally would have endorsed were the decision mine alone to make. I view projects as partnerships between myself and the client and I am willing to play whatever position on the team the client's project calls for me to be in. I have an ego and I possess a powerful personality, but these are superceded by my ultimate goal which is for the team to win. From a client's perspective, success is guaged on the ability of the solution to meet the requirements, but that alone does not account for sum total of it. More often than not emotions and more
>subjective thinking play a factor and the client is significantly effected by seeing their dream/vision come to life. (The preceding two sentences were just a comment on my part and don't speak specifically to your question so back to being a team player...) Make no mistake, I play for keeps and I play hard. But, if the team is best served by me being the water boy then I am the best damn water boy money can buy and if they want or play better on Gatorade instead then they shall have it. I am sure you feel similarily.
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>>Craig,
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>>Follow-up: a hypothetical question:
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>>Assume for a given application, VFP is the better tool, for whatever reason. But the client insists on using .NET.
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>>Also assume that .NET is capable of doing the job.
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>>Question: from your perspective as an consultant/developer, which is the better tool?
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>>Kevin