Joel
I agree.
- they wanted a recognised and widely accepted platform.
- they wanted to web-enable.
- they wanted to use latest Microsoft technologies.
That last clause narrows the selection from "Java, Kylix, Delphi, VB6, dotNET" down to pretty much dotNET.
The purpose of the article has little to do with VFP which is just the patsy. The "point" is to show firms choosing dotNET over Java et al, preferably while not paying much heed to the last clause above which effectively makes it a one-horse race. A cynic might observe that as an example it seems a little desperate- surely an example replacing Delphi with C# or Java with VB.NET rather than cannibalising another MS product, would have served better - though I wouldn't want to start theorising on such a flimsy basis.
Regards
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
