>>Fair enough. So was your point that ASP.NET is "old technology" if it isn't used with the MVC architecture?
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>MVC uses a different approach than ASP.NET. You don't have web forms, for example.
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>>I don't have numbers on this but my guess is there is still lots of non-MVC ASP.NET work going on. Probably even a large majority of it. You are unusually plugged in to the most current Microsoft directions, more so than most developers and certainly more so than most shops. I don't have to tell you that corporate shops tend to adopt new technology cautiously. The soup du jour is about the last thing on the menu most of them want to order. In my experience, anyway.
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>There is a big difference between developing a new app and enhancing/maintaining existing apps. If a new app, then newer technologies should be considered.
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>Also, keep in mind that I work for a Fortune 100. Even more so, I develop apps for hospital use, and health care is notoriously slow at adopting new technology unless it is used directly for patient care (my apps are not).

We are sort of agreeing there. What you're saying is that even in a Fortune 100 company adoption of new technology can be slow. For sure it is slow in the smaller companies I have worked in (only one Fortune 100, and it was about Fortune 5).

As you well know, being another "seasoned" <g> developer, some of the caution, in addition to fear of the unfamiliar, is a result of having been burned by previous soups du jour. Particular those from a certain large company in the Pacific northwest. By the time your order gets back to the kitchen it's no longer on the menu, or maybe your waitperson comes back and says in a low voice, "It's not so good today. Perhaps I can suggest something you would enjoy more?" (Enough of that analogy, which I have already stretched up to and beyond the breaking point).

One of my few laughs during the Super Bowl commercials yesterday was one from cars.com. "Sometimes it's better to let others go first, so we can learn." In the third scene two cowboys are hiding behind a boulder. "See if it's clear," one says to the other. The other cowboy stands up and is immediately plugged with arrows.

http://www.streetfire.net/video/super-bowl-2011-carscom-commercial-go-first_2193458.htm