Hear! Hear! you said it best and what you are saying is exactly true. At some point "someone" took a chance on an unknown company called Microsoft, and another unknown one called Apple.

Also, if you think about it "someone" is taking a chance on "any developer" when they first get started or move to a new tool.

And that is also why a new business can replace an old business - by not taking a chance on new stuff. Think of Kodak and Xerox as a couple examples.

Just my opinion.

>>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
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>I will most definitely try Lianja :)