>Stop. Don't go there. Several reasons:

too global for my taste

>- I've never seen a converter that did a good job. There are always things you need to do manually.

Can be expected from Pareto law. Still, if there is a large amount that can be converted automatically, that should save cost - even if manual operation is needed.

>- Code that is converted tends to be poor and not optimized.

Same could be said about all genetrated code. The typical answer: "We took care and optimized/streamlined the stuff especially because we are experts in that domain" could be said here as well.

>- .NET applications are architected differently.

Full ACK

>A simple conversion will be sub-optimal and could easily have performance issues.

No beef with that part, but if enough cost is saved, not even thinking about conversion might be considered premature optimization ;-))

regds

thomas