John,

>>Our clients show some initial reaction when they find out its written in VFP, but when they learn its going to .net, that relucatance goes away

Not wanting to start a brawl ;-) but that seems to be one of the main "technical" reasons for change. I was trained in a different field from IT and it concerns me to see IT going down that track. There are few scientific or technical professions whose practitioners are so accepting of and directed by vendors' market activity. Actually that would be illegal in some disciplines. The problem with IT is that there is no barrier to entry, so any tin-pot outfit can turn up trumpeting a vendor's party line and your firm is at a disadvantage. That couldn't happen in medicine, law, nuclear physics or any of the mature disciplines. That's something *we* need to think about if we want to be seen as a profession rather than as expensive tradesmen who follow instructions (and therefore can be replaced by a graduate somewhere in the 3rd world).

Good luck, and I think you'll find most people here would agree that if everything is in SP, you could do the UI with just about any product, in which case you might as well choose the one supported by the biggest dev-tool vendor in the solar system.

Regards

j.R