>Marketing ploy or not - if it is a bona-fide success story - that is all that counts. What does motivation have to do with it?
Bona fide? Here you're implying it is a success story and it couldn't be so if they kept it in VFP. That's nothing more than cheap blah, blah, blah pumped by MS to tell the world "how explendid the .net technology is"!
