>>I wander How do you call people who swayed by M$ marketing decided to rewrite their cash-cow / LOB apps to NET 1.1
as early as 2003-2004 ?

Actually I was one of those people: the NET code we wrote in 2002-2003 was quickly obsolete and unmaintainable by ?2008 because nobody was prepared to work on that old junk.

What I find most interesting is the personalization and distraction whenever we try to discuss these important issues. When confronted with the risks in their own choices, some people who have bashed VFP for years prefer to continue the attack, targeting the messenger or introduce boring personalized nonsense rather than engaging the real issues, including the strong chance that both VFP and NET people may need to select a non-MS product if they want to be mainstream in the mobile arena. I'm not saying it's certain, I'm saying that automatically cleaving to MS may be a HABIT that doesn't reflect market movements at the moment.