Linda, I think you can do an awful lot of good work with NET. We made a decision to convert a lot of our stuff in 2001-2002 while it was still in beta. I tried to discuss our experiences in UT more than once but eventually gave up- no, not because I was attacked by VFPers. Quite the opposite. It's all there in the archive starting in 2003 if you want to take a look. ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1