>More seriously, I agree with you completely. Designing one's own framework probably would be an interesting technical exercise, but economically it doesn't make a lot of sense.

Depends on the situation. When we first started our application back in very early 2002, there wasn't a whole lot out there yet. We wrote our own framework for that reason. It was fun and challenging. And now it's an old framework, based on some older technology ... but it still works great and, when I left, there was really very little that needed changing. Except for change just for the sake of change ... which is not always a good thing! <g>

~~Bonnie