>You have a point related to development machines for .NET and perhaps for machines to run .NET Winforms apps.
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>However, ASP.NET certainly can be (and is being) easily implemented today without any additional requirements on user machines. .NET is going somewhere already in that category.

Fair enough. I assume, though, that this doesn't require serious changes to the client side, just the server -- leading back to my original point...

>I think that information agrees with your point that very little is being deployed so far, with the exception of ASP.NET apps. However, I don't agree that .NET is going nowhere. It's going somewhere, but has lots of inertia to break.

To repeat, .NET is going nowhere in the short to medium term time frame (IMO, and a broad generalization, for that matter). Long term, who knows...

Another of my concerns will be M$FT possibly changing the dance steps. Whose to say, for instance, that the next version of .NET won't require all clients to upgrade to WinXP? Or the version after that will require annual client seat licenses?

Bill Anderson