>I guess that none of the tens of millions of small businesses using Quickbooks are customers of yours, then. Because millions of them *prefer* proprietary local storage and are reluctant to upgrade to a cool C/S scenario even when it is pressed upon them.

You use the QuickBook example quite a bit. QuickBooks doesn't come close to the kind of application development I am referring to but, I take and fully accept what you say. I am not referring to a shrink-wrapped application to install on a PC.

Part of my current "gig" is to integrate £400,000 of Systems Union "Sun Accounts" system, along with £80,000 of K2 Human Workflow Engine and £70,000 BizTalk Enterprise server into a £2,500,000 C#/SQL Server development. The QuickBooks arguments just doesn't figure in this type of corporate scenario - its chalk and cheese and in this type of environment, .NET is perfect. Irrespective of "local storage", VFP is unable to talk to/drive these kinds of applications. They are all geared up to use .NET as the "glue".