One thing that jumps out at me about this conversation and the mention of lots of other products that have had short lived lives, is that a lot of the famous failures were slammed their first day on the street. Things like "Bob", "New Coke" and it famous cousin, "Lemon Coke", were met with critical comments thier first day.

.Net has critics, but there seems to be far more supporters. I've been doing some research on some aspects of ASP.Net. I can firmly state that I saw few if any critical comments about how ASP.Net addresses the shortcomings of standard ASP. And this is after visiting websites with names like "Angrycoder.com". The vast amounts of critical comments I've seen have come from folks slamming MS for overhauling their core technology once again.

I've not seen any bad comments that where the poster says that he doesn't think that .Net will be able to accomplish MSs' stated goals.

PF

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>Now to give you an answer regarding what direction you should take, I'm going to pursue a slightly different avenue. I'm not going to say, "Stick with VFP". Neither am I going to say, "Jump on the .NET bandwagon". I will say that I'm going to be looking closely at VS.NET. Fact of the matter is, that anything we say regarding either is strictly speculation. Could .NET fail? I suppose so. Business history is littered with well-hyped failures. Remember "Microsoft Bob"? "New Coke?" Frankly, I doubt that it will, but that's just an opinion and it and 50 cents will get you your local newspaper.
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