>>I don't doubt the huge future of "mobile" but I also don't doubt that millions of businesses with computer on desks are going to continue to use computers on desk or laptop equivalents for a lot of business purposes.

Already happening- corporate IT depts across the US are exasperated at having to support senior execs' own mobile devices rather than an approved issued device. As smart phones sweep across the mobile arena, it'll happen more and more and corporates already are folding because mobile devices make people more productive.

>> I'm not sure there is going to be a huge rush to have the accounting department doing their work on iPhones <g>

What about iPads, or the next generation hige-res Android devices? If it's not already out, the next published round of data shows those devices taking a dent out of PC sales.

>>But I'm not that panicky about developing WPF apps for Windows 7 and Sql Server and feeling that by doing so and not jumping on Android I'm the same as a Foxpro developer in 2005.

If you're doing frontends, IMHO you *need* it to work on mobile as well as workstation- unless there are specialized security reasons not to. Since mobile access is far from perfect, ideally your apps will have a local cache that works on multiple OS and some mechanism to synchronize. If it's a browser app, you still want it working on multiple devices. IMHO this is a recipe for sqlite and Javascript. I#m happy to leave it there and revisit in a year if you like.

>>Not sure what the installed base of Windows OS boxes out there is, but I have a pretty good idea convincing businesses to dump them all for iOS, Android or something else is going to take a sales job even more intense than Steve Jobs on the Sea Org <bg>

LOL. But that's not what happens: people start using their mobile devices and complaining if it doesn't work. More people get devices. It snowballs.

>>In the meantime, of course, I will live by the Golden Rule - client's gold, client's rules <g> )

I'm sure we all agree about that. ;-) But here's another prediction: a new Fox Software equivalent will burst on the scene with a local database app that works on any device, synchronizes data automatically and works for the devices that matter. Until then, Javascript and sqlite are the frontrunners IMHO.