>What we really have here is that it's too EARLY for .NET but that is well hidden by all of the marketing $$$ spent on pushing it and converting developers to it (including phony 'community building').

Depends on how you look at it. Maybe ask the 8000 developers that were at PDC last week and see how they feel about .Net being too early with .Net when there was already the drive on for the next big thing (Longhorn).

While I do think there are many things to NOT like about .Net (especially Windows forms) there's a lot of .Net development going on. A lot of applications are just starting to come to Market written in .Net just now and once it becomes more common there will be a wave... already ASP.Net is picking up a large chunk of the Web development market given how long it's been around.

VFP works fine but it's hard to be optimistic at this point with it being fairly obvios that VFP will not be a part of the next wave of Windwos.


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