>>Terry,
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>- all does not matter, just do web development: intranets/extranets/public sites. Wake up!
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>Yesterday, in south Texas - my SBC backbone was broke all day - by my little office network kept on ticking!
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>The pendelum swings (almost artificially now-a-daze) - 25 Years ago, everybody wanted smart terminals and local processing and to be rid of the central mainframes "Master Control Program", and now every devcon barker and alliance partner of MS is saying no - no - back to the Master Control program - we have lost our way, but salvation is near!
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>Anything to move da merchandise - I guess.
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>But's whats really happening is state side developers are dumbing down - pretty soon even the high end work will be off shore - and all of us can be what we pushing for - cash register and copier repairmen - or work with translators to write RFPs for boiler room engineers arcross the pond!
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>>Igor.

Web development is not only about public sites - most of the projects are about intranets, with no reliance on external providers. This is the environment, running on the same wires as client/server was 10 years ago. Hosting with external service provider is a cool topic to discuss, but in reality, mission critical systems are running on the internal intranets rather then with off-site hosting.

I do not know why are you talking about "cash register and copier repairmen..." destiny. May be you are referring to those who try to push client/server on a closed LANs, then with this approach this may be true. However, all I can say is my company is overwhelmed with work - we build web portals with VFP, work together with .NET, PHP, nobody complains about the future of VFP, etc. Language does not matter! Just migrate to the web development (I mean not from VFP to another language, - stay with VFP and work together with other languages in web development) - and you will feel much better. (That was the reason for my "wake up!" call :)

Igor.