From what I read PDC was most interesting - full of WOW stuff.
And the strange thing is that it really is in all of our interests that MS succeed with .NET sooner rather than later. And I think this is especially true for VFP adherents, so that we can press further for more .NET (and beyond) compatible features while we still have numbers.

I still feel that the huge install base of working bread-and-butter production stuff combined with the increased concern for profits will slow any adoption from what MS counted on in the past. And the bottom line concerns will push more and more businesses off-shore and I think that that will mean transfering working (existing) technology over and a much slower rate of change once that happens. And we've seen that the "information industry" is not at all immune from off-shoring and may well be the major growth area in the nearer term.

8,000+ enthusiastic PDC developers must be quite a thing to see. But I've read that outfits like Amway and Mary Kay hold huge and wildly enthusiastic conventions too and it is really only a handful of attendees who actually "make it" despite the pumping/stoking they all get and come away with from those things.
Enthusiastic developers are one thing but the essential ingredient is really enthusiastic business decision makers with buck to spend on new technology. It remains to be seen if here are sufficient of them to make .NET happen sooner rather than later.

[and it does seem to me that ASP.NET is a special case in that it supplies vastly superior capabilities than ASP.old. In addition it doesn't have an impact like a replacement application development language does]

cheers

>>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').
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>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).
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>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.
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>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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>+++ Rick ---