>Java, for example, would make much more sense because it is newer and yet mature enough to get the job done (or at least that is the theory...)

Yes .. Java has a blazing speed, and the devdelopment environmen manages few resources, the debug is ... funny ... you will be happy with that. <g>

>I think thay have been potentially mis-informed by MS officials who should have known better, and I am acting to remedy that.

Well ... post or send to Ken Levy or Ricardo Wenger the name of this MS officials.