>I can see those points. On the other hand, some can counter that by saying that Microsoft has been saying for sometime that we should be looking at .Net and data handling is different there. That if we would have been more pro-active and learned .Net 3+ years ago, that it wouldn't be an issue now.

Yes. It would not have been a big issue. When Ken Levy started to leave the VFP Team, I also started looking ways to jump to the .NET Ship because I thought that VFP ship will soon sink because the captain began packing.

There are so many things that the .NET can do but VFP can't. On the other hand, I still have to see something that VFP can do that .NET can't. Only that the latter does it differently.