>> 1. Maturity.
2. Reliability.
3. Flexibility.
4. A proven track record.
5. Lack of "The Unknown".
6. Deployment of mission critical applications.

Just starters. :) <<

Those aren't features or functionality, those are buzzwords. Do you think adding VFP functionality to .NET would bring increased maturity to the product, for example? It would just be additional code with additional bugs. It's not like you could plug VFP straight in.

I wasn't slamming VFP, only stating that I don't see the benefit (or likelihood) of adding VFP functionality to .NET. Anything you can do in VFP code is already in .NET.

Mike