>>>Since when is NET 'proven' technology ?!? Are you talking about NET 1.1 , or latest 3.5 which is... how old ?
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>>Are you kidding? .NET is clearly proven technology - it's been around since circa 2000 and used all around the world in a vast number of situations. That is, unless you are looking through VFP tinted glasses.
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>In which case you'd have to say "which was around since about 1988" but the age is not the point, right?
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>I don't see dot net as a mature product yet. There are too many major features added with each version. It has yet to reach the stage of VFP 9 or even 8, which didn't bring anything Earth-shattering, just had so many small and useful things that made life easier and operation smooth. With the sped up pace of development, such a version of dot net should be delivered real soon now. Let's see, if we consider VFP3.0 to be a beta, then VFP5 was equivalent to 1.1; that was '97 or '96 vs 2001. VFP8 and 9 came out in 2003 and 2005, i.e. eight years after the first usable version. Now taking that this is 2009, i.e.eight years past the first usable version of dot net... well, I assume it should be getting a few final touches in this year's version and then be SP'd once or twice in the next couple of years. Then it would be discontinued, three guys left to drop by once in a while to see if there's an urgent fix to deliver and the "don't forget to turn off the lights on your way out" by the door.
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>Of course, there were many of us who lived with the first usable version, which was soon used all around the world in a vast number of situations, and was already a proven technology, unless you were looking through VB6 tinted glasses... it's all relative, my dear Albert.

Can you give us an overview of your experience with .NET? (innocent look)