>So forget exact numbers (as I said you know your costs much better then I do) and tell me what did I say that was so ignorantly wrong ?


>employ your team of say 10 NET developers.

>Then you will inform him as well that he will need to purchase MSSQL server

>renew his hardware to fit the NET specs and project would take off.

>exactly the same solution can be done at fraction of total cost and perform exactly the same thing if not better, if done with less known development platform called VFP which is on admitedly on decline but still performing great.

>we simply choose not to spend few million bucks on each project

>I would be bigger IT chief (just like you are) leading dev team of 5-7 people still choking to do all the job that was to be done and maintain it afterwards.

>Count it by any measures you like but that is just fraction of
cost comparing to any NET based alternative.