Bob,

>...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.

Just a different angle to consider for a moment...

One thing that .NET can give you is easy development of web pages that talk to your Fox tables and extend your Fox apps onto the web. Sure, there are still several good Fox-based products that can do that too, but ASP.NET really is a very good platform with many, many hosting options at reasonable cost.

You don't have to embrace .NET completely for all development, in other words, to benefit greatly from ASP.NET.