>>That's true, John but there is almost infinite corporate demand for ASP.NET.

I know we've agreed before that the rational business mantra is STAY PRODUCTIVE. Plenty of work? Deliver! But be watchful and ready, especially if your vendor has a reputation for abrupt direction changes that are announced to you after you've invested big time based on what they were saying until yesterday.

>>I did it over in vanilla HTML/CSS with Dreamweaver - it took longer to develop.. but the site ran ... like a Fox!

Some years back I got a doorstopped Windows95 workstation and installed the Asterisk pbx. It runs on Centos, but the installer was as good as a Windows installer and did it all. Imagine my surprise to find the pbx is accompanied by MySQL, a choice of email servers and SpamAssassin, Samba for file sharing, a ftp server, a great firewall... all running on a PC that was too slow and lowly-speced even to be used as a workstation in the Windows world. That's when I began taking more notice of Linux at the backend. Meanwhile Windows still rules on the desktop and probably will for as long as people keep buying grandpa boxes.