Kevin,

Answering your last question first... no, people should get stoked about whatever stokes them. It does work both ways in that people who choose to let .NET mature before jumping in are not po-dunkers either.

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>Your argument is a common tactic to persuade people to stay with the status quo and avoid .NET. It's more like the politics of evasion. But why has that argument never been made about Fox? If you follow the argument consistently ('hold on to what's stable'), then why did so many go from FPW to VFP? And then to VFP5/6? And then 7/8? And then get all excited about 9?

As we see all the time here, many people are still on VFP6. I'd guess they went from 3 to 5 to 6 and with SP5. 6 is 'reasonable' compared to the prior.
The difference of course between going to VFP7 or 8 or 9, for those of us that do, is that the jump is trivial compared to leaping to .NET.
People originally went from FPD/FPW because in THOSE DAYS we ALL followed the MS direction blindly. Times have changed. And don't be forgetting that FP lost thousands of adherents when MS made that play.

My "argument" may be a common tactic to you, but I'm quite sure that it is used more and more in the MS USERS world. Users of MS' older products have now got productive well-oiled systems serving them handsomely and they are not inclined to bet the business on MS' latest fad. (I know, to a modern developer like yourself .NET is way beyond fad).

There's absolutely no shame in sticking with what works. Sure, it's definitely not leading edge but users with production systems are not inclined towards leading edge any more. Before they had production systems leading edge was de rigeur. Now stability is what matters.

cheers

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>Are people permitted to get stoked about new technology, only if it carries the Fox logo?
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>Kevin