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>>>Because of large hardware requirements, I don't see .NET as a universal solution for the Windows platform, at least for now.
>>>Perhaps in 3-4 years.
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>>Which in our industry is a very long time during which so many things could happen to change our minds again...
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>Hmmm... I think this can be true for some portion of our (latin-american and other developing countries) markets. But not the biggest piece of the pie at all.
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>Here in Argentina (this is not New York nor Monaco) we are increasingly seeing .NET applications under deployments. The first batch were so so, but now we are seeing better products. Of course, there is a great deal of Web Applications that doesn't depend so much on hardware, but there are also many WinForm apps going well.
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>I think .NET is mature enough. Maybe we VFP developers still have better productivity with VFP, but VB guys and the like... Once they overcome the huge learning curve, they love this thing.
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>Another 2 cents,

Hi Martin. Please understand that I am not making VFP vs. .Net statements. I could'nt care less about that discussion as it is not useful not is it relevant. It's a pointless topic. I am sure .Net application will and are being deployed. Why shoud'nt they be? After all .Net is a powerful development platform.

My statement was simply that 3 or 4 years is a long time in our industry and things move very quickly. In that time frame a lot of things can happen and new development tools and platforms can emerge. 3 years is a long time in our industry. The world can change a lot in that time :)