>This is one of the big troubles with IT- new products come with breathless support from the manufacturer and the self-appointed gurus, but little else. Contrast this with a new medical treatment that is accompanied by millions of dollars worth of previous trials, clearly defined appropriate uses and contraindications and a wealth of reproducable evidence to support its use.

I am not agree.
For IT consultants is pleasure to present other their knowledge. You can find a lot of stuff for every new product.
- first MS officers write good tech articles.
- second most of the MVP write also good articles.
- third there a lot of industry gurus which do the same and publish the code
- there are a lot of young people trying to present themself that publish their work with new products.

I have not any problem with finding sources for VS2005 and SQLServer2005.
Even before release of VFP9.0 at Frankfurt DevCon was presented all new features and samples how they could be used.

If one company staff like to implement new techniques and products there are not any problem for that.