>It's all a matter of personal opinion. .Net does alot for you.

Visual Interdev "did a lot" ... I see no evidence of any significant market share.

>But it's really hard to write web apps currently. Even with HTML and Java. .Net will make alot of that easier to do. That will have a big impact on the adoption of .Net.

I don't know what makes you say that; SAP et al are deploying enterprise solution on the WWW ... without the benefit of .NET.

And there's the "SanFrancisco" (Java) applications project running on Windows NT, OS/400, AIX, Sun Solaris and HP-UX.

While everyone is building application components, MS is still working on the toolkit.

>No, companies will chose the best solution they can afford. That may not always be the cheapest solution.

Which explains why there is such a high demand for VFP (programmers).

>IBM was terrible at marketing (and still is, IMO). The way they did things was to make the different model incompatable, so that when you outgrew your existing hardware, you had to replace all the software too.

In MS case, you outgrow the software, and replace the hardware in the process; same difference.

(My P3-800 with 256MB already seems underpowered when I'm working with .NET).