>I've spent time with NET since its early beta. But it's never matched the buzz I got in those early Fox days when each new release truly offered new stuff for which customers would queue. Meaning that value increasingly revolves around the developer rather than the products they use. The ability to program using "tool x" becomes a commodity when "tool x" no longer delivers business (customer) value merely from its use. IMHO that's what people need to be considering carefully.

But that was true for vfp as well - IMHO vfp3 was just as much a testing balloon as .Net 1.x -
interesting technology but not really good/ready to base critical apps on. Vfp5 was definately good enough for the things I used as well as customers asking for it and on vfp6 (esp. after SP3) I argued very strongly to port *any* old FPD/FPW app I was asked to modify.

The *real* trouble is that hardware speedup hasn't kept up with software bloat after PIV2.5 Ghz or Amd XP 2.0: in the last 6 to 8 years we definatly did not see the speedup to be formerly expected as a by-law to Moore. ALWAYS blame the HW <bg>