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>The mistake you make, like many in the vocal minority is that you super-impose your feelings for how the rest of the world *should* feel and make decisions from that. And, you subordinate the business practicalities to the supposed technical superior features of the product.

C'mon John. You claim the high ground but you are in exactly the same position except on the other side.

You have no proof that business practicalities are impacted in any way by a shop's continuing to use VFP or, indeed, finally adopting VFP.

Your basis seems to be that .NET *is* better by far. No one knows that for sure. You're staking your claim on the success of .NET, no doubt based in large part on the 'fact' that the behemoth will market the hell out of it and MAKE it succeed.
There have been other 'technically superior' products in the past that have fallen by the wayside for one reason or another. Just because it is MS that is behind this one doesn't guarantee its success. Especially in today's world, where there is a lot more concern about monopoly and costs and open source.


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