>The market is moving to mobile devices driven by vendors who don't give a proverbial about NET, or about SQL Server for that matter.
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>Would you mind qualifying this rather general statement of "the market is moving to mobile devices..."?

For starters Web-Frontends (and probably MSTC-like used apps) have to include Smartphones/xPads as possible input devices.
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> The most deployed database in the world is sqlite which is an absolutely dominant force by now and IMHO you'd be a fool to consider anything else for a mobile app at this stage unless you're using cloud in which case you go with the provider who offers the best terms.
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>You do realize, I hope that sqlite is viewed by even its supporters as "hacky" and still quite immature as a product....

You could also argue that the standards they compare to are higher ;-)
Sqlite is used at the basis of Firefox, Thunderbird, Nokia, Android... you probably have not looked lately ;-)

regards

thomas