BINGO! Besides no customer needs to know what the platform is.

Grady, buddy, I'm sorry, as much as I like you, this statement, in microcosm, represents the quintessential flaw that seriously cripples many (not all) Fox developers.

I'm only being partly facetious when I say that a person either has been living in a cave for a decade (or has been comfortable in a niche' job for a very long time) to not realize that companies take a more active interest in their computing platform than they did years ago. Stating that they "don't need to know", for whatever justification, just doesn't hold water.

In case you didn't notice...the economy has sucked for quite a long time. EVERYTHING is under the microscope - including computing platform. Ask people who are pounding the pavement right now for a job.

For an increasing number of companies over the last decade, the selection of the platform has become PART of the business model.

The question of whether "Fox is dead" isn't nearly as relevant as "where does Fox stand as a viable computing platform?"