>I believe he's looking forward to convincing his clients about the merits of them paying him to rewrite the WWC apps to ASP.NET. Which is basically the same thing developers like KevinM and RickS are and probably will be doing(not that there's anything wrong with that). On the other hand, there are many companies with hugely complex VFP applications that have taken years of development and can not easily be rewritten, but, nonetheless satisfy all of their user's requirements. These folks don't need to use the ".NET strategy" to maintain and get more business ...

I wonder what the future of .NET will look like if technologies like WineX and XTerm get traction. .NET seems like an awful expensive (and complicated)way to solve a problem should these technologies go mainstream and a VFP like Scripting engine makes it to the shelf.

Imagine a VFP like GUI on dumb terminals. It may not be that far away. Stay tuned.