Im sure your boss at Quay, Inc.is pleased with your pleasure at his choice! Good luck!

>Terry,
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>>I have not - [and] I am sure:) I may have some projects coming up where I will need those skills. But - let's face it - the people on this board are dedicated and smart. When a "new" technology is required - the learning curve is in hours and not months.
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>Well obviously you never have attempted anything in .net. I've been working in fox and vfp since 1988. .Net has taken me months just to begin to feel comfortable. How can you make such uniformed assertions?
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>>With luck - I will [again] land an application in a niche market, and shrink wrap it or >shareware it. And I will have a lot of fun doing it. That is something you can't do with .NET.
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>I'm having a blast learning .net. Again a totally unfounded assertion.
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>>I'm sure .NET has a place. I don't think there is a home for it in mom and pop. It will be several years before 90% of the user market is consolidated such that a .NET solution is the only thing available.
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>I doubt that it will ever be the only thing available. It is not meant to be the be all/end all of the programming world. It is meant to develop scalable, flexible web/win apps with various data backends. That's all. Stick with the mom and pops... that's the wave of the future.