Stephen, I guess you are correct. The good thing is that at least in this type of marked M$ have some competition which obviously results in all the competing products evolving into better solutions.
The biggest problem both of them have at the moment is not the infrastructure but outsourcing. In that 90% of the devs have been outsourced to people from Asia because of cost. Unfortunately it would seem that although they are technically qualified they have little if no practical business experience which has resulted in massive project delays and associated cost. The original team were made up of about 50 European and Australasian devs who although expensive were very good. The workforce has now more than doubled even though the costs probably are less in total but there would seem to be a total lack of "cohesion" and work ethos within the team. I guess that this is the result of short term "cost saving" when it comes to recruiting and shows that whatever platform you choose for a project then it will be useless without the people who understand the logistics and infrastructure adequately. Still, I digress here as we are getting away from the hardware discussion but it does beg the question you posed regarding the acceptance of .Net technology by VFP devs. My take on the situation has changed radically over the last 6 months and in fact since .Net 3.x which has now matured into a stable platform with superb development tools. I still think the whole of the .net framework is far to big which doesn't halp when you are trying to learn not just the language but also the framework but once you have mastered it you can usually do many more things than in VFP - and with less effort which look prettier as well. I still just wish that M$ would/should have incorporate the ease of data handling from day 1 into both c# and .net. Currently I am using the Strataframe framework to build .net applications in c#. For those of you not in the know it was developed by ex VFPer's and this shows. Data binding is a breeze and you can use the data based logic of VFP when designing applications so tha meny years of VFP rigour are still useful. All in all a recommended product and reasonably priced. Dave Crozier _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/7648f09b07c54434a69741326b320...@develop ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
