Dear John
A much more realistic scenario is "VFP Developer paying the bills with VFP, encouraged to focus on dotNET. As this particular developer only has 24 hours per day to be allocated between work, sleep and family, what effect will 'allocation of resource' to dotNET have? Will it affect the family? Will it affect the VFP income? Will it affect the business?" Since dotNET does not add extra hours in the day, *there* is the opportunity cost and all such developers will have that cost.
Those who make $ writing articles are different- you get paid whether it is a VFP or a dotNET article except that dotNET is "cooler" and therefore you are better off doing dotNET. Since researech is needed either way, I agree there is probably zero opportunity cost.
Regards
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
