A couple of large corporations and case studies <> Widespread Adoption

I am not saying that .Net can't be significant. I think MS is doing a bad job of getting the message out. I have plenty of information on what .Net is. What I am looking for are the reasons why it is so good, and why I should go on that path.

It will be a heck of an investment - one that will need to be justifiable on an economic basis. For me, this IS NOT an academic excercise.

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>Last week I went to MSFT training event called Extending & Integrating an Existing Application with .NET. The MSFT rep said that they are currently working with a couple large corporations on .NET projects. They are going to be used as case studies when it is release. Which the rep also said was August or September.
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>>.Net at this point is vapor. Even if released today, it will still be 2 years before there is widespread adoption. There simply is no payback for being on the bleeding edge..
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>>As for what to learn today, VB/SQL. I know you posted this in a VFP forum. Still, somebody fresh to the programming ranks, in good conscience, cannot be told to take up VFP. There are only so many hours in the day to learn. One has to make a choice. VB has the biggest upside with respect to finding opportunities..
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>>I can't wait for the enlightened responses to this post...< s >....
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>>>If someone wants to change profession and get a job as a programmer within next 6-12 months, what should he study? Should he study VFP/VB/MSSQL now and work his way up to .NET or should he go straight to .NET (although still in early beta but functional and stable) and MSSQL?