Hello Alex,

I have been programming in fox for 20+ years, my current position is the largest company I have ever worked for and it has less than 100 people/15 Mil in sales. This is the space I prefer to work in where one person can make a real difference and work on design/code/training/etc nuts to bolts including management. I have worked as a consultant for many companies, and have sold a vertical market package (FPDos police package still in use!)

I REALLY don't care what the enterprise people are doing, never have. My brother and father worked on enterprise systems on BigBlue mainframes and got to collaborate on designing small cogs in a huge wheel, not for me. I do not have anything against .NET, hopefully it will be a stable platform for design work for a few years into the future, but it offers me little.

And it's not even really about TCO, although foxers have been noted to be extremely frugal in there technology choices. To me, it is more about the MS attitude.

As an aside, I think the .NET jobs are much more likely to be shipped overseas since they are more geared to enterprise clients who can negotiate big contracts with big companies, small companies are not likely to subcontract to India.

Bob
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>Your point refers also to Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). It is IMO an important point, especially for low budget, small operations (e.g. Moms-and-Pops).
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>.Net, a good-great-excellent product (pick whatever opinion you may have) is still geared towards the Enterprise. IMO it fails to cover the MomsNPops which are not going to invest in the hardware upgrades needed for .Net apps, not to mention SQL Server and at least a part-time DBA, plus the skilled .Net developer.
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>Does MS have a ready-made tool to perfectly cover the medium and small size market? Yes. It is called VFP. Else they run the risk of losing that market to non-MS solutions.