Perry,

>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.

I think that you could make the argument that .NET has yet to "hit the streets". Yeah, all gajillion megs are available for download, but folks with T1 lines have found that it takes forever, let alone those of us limping along at 56K.

>.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 can't comment here. I'm awaiting for the release to be in my "hot little hands" so any comment by me is meaningless, since I haven't really "gotten my feet wet" yet.

>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.
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Time will tell. I'm certainly not going to turn this into a technical version of "The Psychic Hotline."< bg >