John,

Let's cut to the chase here. It will take a VFP developer more than three months to learn .NET. You can be as wordy as you like, you can mention Quickbooks as much as you want to but, it doesn't change the fact that it will take a VFP developer more than three months to learn .NET . :)

>I detect a great deal of prejudice here. People who agree with one side are called enlightened and capable. People who reach a differing conclusion are not competent to decide, or have a vested interest, or are in some way deficient.
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>I'm afraid this sort of "one size fits all" thinking is positively Soviet. That's why I keep posting the Quickbooks scenario. Are you seriously proposing that somebody serving that market is only competent if they decide that C# with SQL Server is the only way to go?
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>Why should you care if some other business chooses to stick with VFP?! Are you not successful with dotNET? Does their decision affect your success in any way? If it does, your success is pretty fragile, which presumably is not the message you want to convey.