>>This is no "niche." This is happening every day in small to medium sized businesses around the world as they seek to become more competitive and cost effective in a tight economy and its's only possible because of the marvellous HW/Software platform that MS has put together.

It seems you are saying that none of the commercially available design packages were suitable for this customer and that MS tools are what allowed you to deliver the advantage you describe. If so, the first concept means it's a "niche" and the second means that the benefit will be easily replicated, since the MS tools that delivered the benefits are readily available... unless you've done something really clever, in which case the value comes from YOU and your customer will be well advised to ensure it isn't readily available to competitors.

>>Are you really suggesting that I should even think about telling customers like this one to wait because by 2013 there MIGHT be a better way to do this?????

LOL, thanks for the second invitation to defend a ludicrous interpretation you've come up with. ;-) My position is that mobile cannot be safely ignored, no matter how much anecdote people pile up. If you're certain that I'm wrong or that MS holds all the cards, then that's cool. To be honest, I wish MS would get its A into G in mobile as I've said here often enough. Saying it doesn't make it true, though.