Craig,

>No. I'm trying to make the point that .Net is NOT a product. Someone asked when .Net will be released. I gave the correct answer because .Net is a concept...

You gave the correct answer only if the person was asking when will the .NET concept be released. More than likely, the person meant "the products that make up the .NET buzz I keep hearing about, specifically Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework."

>... That concept has been announced. The implementation of that concept is not yet available.

I'm pretty certain the question had to do with the implementation of the concept.

>VS .Net, .Net framework, and ASP .Net are in Release Candidate stage. It can be argued if this is still beta or not. Testing continues, but new features are not added.

Well, it's obvious that Release Candidate and "released" are not the same thing.

>Also, you should know that the correct terminology is to have a space before the .Net. I would have thought you knew that.

You're right there, except for ASP.NET and ADO.NET.