>>I've heard nothing from you that would make him think otherwise.
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>But I am not advising him am I?
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>Bob, you are clearly a creditable VFP developer - no question about that. But some of the things you have said about technologies that you are patently unfamiliar with have been, with the greatest of respect, naive.
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>Therefore, when he asks you to investigate the business case for changing to .NET (or, at least away from VFP), you are simply not qualified to make that case. The responsible thing to have done would have been to own up that you cannot make the case for .NET and recommend that he bring someone in like Kevin Goff as a consultant who understands both technologies and get him to give an honest and impartial appraisal of the situation (given that it could easily be argued that you have a vested interest in the site remaining VFP).

Seems you're the one being argumentative here, Gary.
When you say to Robert "...you are simply not qualified to make that case..." I ask myself how .NET could ever have taken hold anywhere, there being NO "qualified" individuals at its inception to make that decision.

I say good for you that you are well on your way to mastering .NET. But just because you've caught the new religion is no good reason for you to go around belittling others who curently are sticking to their existing religion (and your previous one).
You've made it clear that your opinion is that only .NET is sensible in ANY business programming. So much so that anyone who doesn't see that is iether unqualified or has his head in the sand.

I asked a simple question earlier in the thread and you accused me of being argumentative.
In earlier messages you said you missed the local data store. Later you said you didn't need a local data store and you did keep some stuff "in XML". When I asked if that wasn't a data store you went snarky.

I know I'll move from VFP some day. But there's no way I'd say now that it WILL be to .NET. Should I, or others, choose something other than .NET I guess in your book they'd be unqualified to have made that decision.
Why do you feel that you have to jump on anyone who happens to support the OPs post? Why can't you just let those (us) poor souls go on living in neverland? Seems your newfound religion has a tenet saying that you have to spread its goodness anywhere, anytime, at any cost.