>>So your advising him to move to .Net,
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>No, you need to read again. I am not advising your boss to do anything.
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>>I would have to say he is lucky your not advising him!
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>This is a very weak response. Given my experience of VFP, .NET and SQL server, from a technological POV, I could provide more impartial answers than you could.
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>>I am not saying .Net isn't right for some, just not for my employer.
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>You cannot say that, you don't know enough about .Net to provide a qualified opinion.

What ???

Man, you are real peace of work!
I let u get away first time when responding in simillar
ubnoxcious, cynic, belittling way to me, but now you really got me pi**ed.

Who the h*ll think you are ?!?

Okay, u r getting on very well with NET , so what ?
You are dealing with few millions bucks worth of platform - so what ?
Everybody else does NET, so what ?

What do you know about business case of Bob's boss, or OP, or me, or any other guy here on UT , so you can give impartial opinion directly form
your office chair ?

NET/SQL is simply (in my opinion) over-expensive platform in every possible way. At this point of time, it wld cost us (and meny other businesses ) an arm & leg to convert, bringing nothing spectacular to justify that cost and risk. If NET/SQL was god given, it wld come to all of us - naturally.
As a natural solution - not as threat. Just like Fox did. Without anybody breaking your ears & nervs about it. Who pushed for dbase/clipper or Fox back then ??

Frm the other side ;
Why purchasing new car if you already drive porsh?
Even Toyota Corrola is just fine if that is all you need / can afford.
Why invest all bunch of money NOW for something that you just *MIGHT* need ?
(But also you might not)

Should I suggest my boss 400.000 - $$$$$$$ USD wort of IT investments,
converting our production systems to NET, just for sake of it, so I can feel good about me, myself & I?!?
Of course not.

Will keep of course my eyes/ears open, having often NET whitepappers as evening literature, readign threads/blogs here and there, but for all daily work / food on the table - I'll still keep VFP in my code window.

To OP;
If someone pay/request NET/SQL or nothing - then you will have your
business case (and funding) for your NET research.
Otherwise you just waisted 3 months for nothing.