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>As for the best and brightest: interesting that so many who made the move away from VFP only a year or five after I did, today remain in NET rather than following the even more obvious shift toward mobile platforms- an undeniable market shift rather than a calculated vendor strategy. Seems to me some people are mostly aligned with their chosen vendor, which is fine as long as it's not presented as anything else.

I said "many" of best and brightest, just to be clear.

The move towards mobile isn't necessarily an "either-or". And certainly moving from VFP to .NET wasn't necessarily a pure "either-or" either, though probably more by comparison.

I would challenge anyone to dispute the observation that mobile has been a nearly perpetual hedging of bets for years.
One could say the same thing about Azure a few years ago, though the space is finally starting to mature.