>>>>IMO, going to Lianja is a disservice to your customers. Moving from one niche product (VFP) to a product that's even more niche won't help the customer any when they can't find developers to enhance solutions. Too often, we neglect to look at long term affects of our tech choices.
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>>>Some 20+ years back, doing anything else but COBOL,RPG ... on MainFrames was probably considered 'disservice to customers' by those 'larger then life' mainframe systems developers. However, despite stern warnings by industry experts of the time, some less responsible young people were still engaging in various 'unsafe' ( 'condom free' {g} ) activities like DB3+ , Fox, Clipper, Basic etc More or less, this is how most of us around here became developers. :)
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>>>I am not saying Lianja is next software development revolution, but what does it hurt to try ?. Test apps first, then smaller apps, then hopefully bigger apps.
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>>>If I can reuse just 70% of my code, then for me Lianja (or WindDev or Alaska ) is far less risky choice then venturing into
>>>('Waiting for Godot' ) NET
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>>>I will most definitely try Lianja :)
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>>Waiting for Godot? .NET is hardly unproven technology any more. It has been around for over 10 years, through several major versions, and is still being improved aggressively. In the software development world it is as mainstream as it gets.
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>Exactlu my point. Over 10 years around and it is still not where it supposed to be. It is definitely major EFFORT and marketing PUSH by it's vendor, but still not mainstream in terms of applications deployed in real life. It is one thing being mainstream in developers chatter rooms, while completely different reality when you go company by company office to office and what runs those businesses on those computers. That Is what I consider 'mainstream' and according to what I see, NET is not there yet.

You aren't looking at reality. .NET is as mainstream as it gets.

>As a matter of fact so far I saw very little NET apps in real life use. But then again it might be different case in US.