David and Mike,

Sounds like you are both right to me.
With people seriously trying to promote a WEB interface on a fridge or a microwave, an application on POS sounds more 'legitimate' to me.

On the other hand, it is possible that all of this stuff is more akin to medical magnetics of the 20s and early 30s - sounded like the answer to all medical ills, yet where are they today?

But the biggest question still seems to me to be 'how much of this stuff is actually "ready for prime time?"'. Sure, stuff *is* being done today, but it has to be quite rudimentary compared to what will really be required for all of this to work well. Seems to me that the VS7 announcement confirms this (and it, itself, is less than half of the battle).

There are still many FPx2.x applications in production (working, not necessarily being developed) and a growing number of VFP apps. And while I guess that XML really is going to take off, we all have seen our share of highly-hyped things that went the way of the dinosaur before they left infancy.

For my part, I'm *trying* to stay aware of things but look for a little more tangible evidence before going much further. The latest feature of VB, for instance, have me seriously considering learning it to extensive detail while, until now, awareness was quite sufficient for me.

By the way, David, it sounds like you should be a part of the VFP marketing team.

Cheers,

Jim N

>>>Because it's PART of the picture of being a well-rounded desktop developer, even if in YOUR business you choose to avoid web stuff.
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>>We don't ignore web stuff, we do some of our internal applications through West Wind and I do mine through ASP. We just don't sell that stuff though, we sell invetory systems and POSes to retail stores. What would I gain through a web interface?
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>I think I've exhausted my points in earlier posts, and will stop the debate here. Time will tell.