>>No victim.. But... why do I have the nagging suspicion that the end product will be somehow less than their promises???

Fair comment- this is not the first attempt to lift existing code out of its vendor-imposed ghetto. What interests me is other people who profess to have moved on but seem to show significant interest/hope that such attempts will fail. Why? Seems to me that as technology develops, choice of language is less and less important- or should be if tech wants to profess interest in output/result rather than input/process. Of course the incumbent vendors want everybody to focus on process (their process) and Google will go the same way in time, but right now there's plenty of opportunity for developers to make professional choices rather than obeying vendors who seem to be going in the wrong direction.