Rod,
>>UI is UI is UI. The database issue is a red hering. You know it and I know it.
That is only true of you have the luxury of dealing with theory only. In the real world, a fast paint program has absolutely no bearing on a busy data entry form, especially when resource constraint comes into play. I did not expect to be arguing this.
While I do not object to being compared to JVP (he is a bright dude after all) I do object to your suggestion that I am being deliberately obtuse by refusing to see your POV.
Once and for all:
of course I can see your POV. I've never disagreed that paint apps can be quick in dotNET. They were quick in Java 1.0 as well, but entry forms were appalling then as well. QED.
Good idea about the canned demo. we should mount it on a few public servers and get a few of us hitting it for a useful test- I'm assuming you weren't proposing a single-user secenario. If there is no performance issue, I guess I'll offer to pay your fee to look at my winforms and explain why they are so slow.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
