>>Don't think so - the GUI stuff is not really tricky. I think they went for the low hanging fruit -
going after database, xBase and SQL functionality first (and the need to debug those...) would have been the right way
AND allow step by step adoption even over a year. You can work around GUI problems, but if your data tier returns erroneous results...

Yep, I too recommended that directly- because functional data munging is easily wrapped in NET to deliver middle tiers/web server solutions that make people want to pay $$$$ to eTech to support completion of the rest. Instead they went for directly compiling scx instead of a far, far easier one-off conversion to a standard NET format to be maintained there- not perfect, but perfect is the enemy of good. It was a huge ask and the months went by with nothing to actually buy from them. Shame. Recital seems to be a lot smarter about it.