>I think your take on .NET is interesting.
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>I was expecting MS to make it look a lot like COM+. You know MTS "Packages" became COM+ "Applications" will become .NET "Assemblies". I can forsee an MMC .NET snap-in with a similar look.
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>Even though the technologies are very different, I think MS will make them look very similar so that the migration path doesn't appear so frightening.

They may look the same but they're not interoperable. A .Net Assembly is not a COM object accessible from a non-managed application. You can get at that, but not through COM at least not directly.

This changes things considerably especially for VFP which can't directly participate in the .Net architecture.