>In my stint as an enterprise consultant last year, it was frequently pointed out to me what a small piece of the big picture MS has. Virtually everything was Oracle developer tools, CORBA, DB2, Oracle 7.x. Some SQL Server....

my point exactly! and once you experience that rude awakening, it makes all this time debating which VS tool to use seem moot. IMHO, we need a unified a front, all tools in VS equal & the wide line between COM vs. CORBA solutions made a little finer & less obvious. Once M$ steals more than it's fair share of the CORBA market, I would think most clients we will be more concerned with "Are you going to use Visual Studio" as opposed which parts of Visual Studio you might use.