>>is not the most important factor in choosing a platform.
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>great, very informative!
>and The Most Important Factor is ...?

>>If our job is to deliver the best possible result to the client
It's hard to conceive how the people writing Amazon.com, with that objective in mind, would have concluded that it was a good idea to use FoxPro because it processed user events well.
I don't know if there is such a thing a "The Most Important Factor" but I'm pretty sure that processing a user event is not it.