Brian-

>He made a statement saying that "COM and COM+ will be obsolete technologies within 1-2 years".

First, .NET isn't even RTM, although it is getting close. Let's say it's on the streets by year's end...to consider that the entire existing code base and that all VB 6 programmers (at minimum) will be 100% dedicated to .NET by next December is, well, ludicrous.