>>>I don't need 90% of the market. I need one or two deep pockets clients who love me and will provide projects I find interesting in an environment I can tolerate ( i.e. never having to leave my home office and being able to completely structure my own time) so I don't have to get a job or work for a living.
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>In that case it's valid to argue that Cobol is the best option. Very deep pockets, very high pay rates, easy-peasy after all these years, weekends have been your own all along. Not going to move to Cobol? Then surely there's more to it. ;-) Seems to me there's value in being aboard the MS wagon even if it does turn out to be a bandwagon. ;-)

But i said "projects I find interesting" - to me that means learning new things and getting to leverage the brilliance and hard work of the current best and brightest. I like being able to google for answers and to see what guys like John Papa are doing and explore how our current state of development communities is creating a synergy of ideas. i am more interested in that, as someone who is much more historian than techno-geek, as the real story. Imagine if the early 17th century or the late 15th would have allowed for the kind of cross-fertilization of ideas that we have come to take for granted and didn't even exist in our industry 20 years ago.

I just want clients than pay me enough to give me an excuse to learn new things.

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>>>I look at trends in our business the way I do the sexual orientation and tastes of others - somewhat interesting but irrelevant to my personal situation unless I am trying to have relations with them :-)
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>That's what Henry Ford critics said. ;-) 5 years later they were manufacturing automobile tires or broke. It'll be even quicker this time. The key issue for me is that Amazon, Priceline etc made their fortunes on the web- but on mobile, they push towards native apps. There's a good reason for that and the rest of the market will figure it out, hopefully before MS does and abruptly changes direction.

I didn't say I wasn't interested in what was new. I just meant I don't have to bet with the long term consensus winner, I just have to bet wisely enough to be able to satisfy the requirements stated above, feeding my curiosity, wallet and slothful nature in proper proportions.