http://ayende.comAyende @ RahienCopyright (C) Ayende Rahien 2004 - 2021 (c) 202660Keep em coming, Ayende. This is great stuff. http://ayende.com/4603/lightswitch-initial-thoughts#comment8http://ayende.com/4603/lightswitch-initial-thoughts#comment8Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:06:49 GMTMost of my customers will not move from TRUE RAD stuff like Foxpro or VB6 simply because they dont want to spend the money on .NET overkill or SQL server over kill... Microsoft killed its RAD stuff like Foxpro and VB6 and now they come out with Lightswitch? Why not just make a VFP.Net language and maybe small to middle size companies will take the plunge. I know Microsoft needs to make money.. they keep coming out with something new every time you turn around..[Windows Forms.. Presentation... Silverlight.. on and on] which technology is better? Who or what are they all targeted for? Microsoft originally said DYNAMIC Languages would be too hard to be part of .NET.. Until the DLR.. And now C# 4 uses DYNAMIC variables... huh? I'm not sure what the target audience is for Lightswitch. Maybe its all the VFP and VB6 developers they lost when the dropped these products... http://ayende.com/4603/lightswitch-initial-thoughts#comment7http://ayende.com/4603/lightswitch-initial-thoughts#comment7Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:09:34 GMTKinda reminds me of foxpro.. Except vfp is 1000 times faster and more productive... http://ayende.com/4603/lightswitch-initial-thoughts#comment6http://ayende.com/4603/lightswitch-initial-thoughts#comment6Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:46:10 GMTI am so excited to see you are taking an interest in these tools as I have total respect for your opinions and analysis. Thank you for taking the time and effort to really give this a good look! http://ayende.com/4603/lightswitch-initial-thoughts#comment5http://ayende.com/4603/lightswitch-initial-thoughts#comment5Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:36:29 GMTI applaud ayende for taking an honest look. It is easy to dismiss this stuff so early. Although this [might|will|could] not be the case, I do hope that the 'KittyHawk' team take this type of feedback on board as they move to RTM. http://ayende.com/4603/lightswitch-initial-thoughts#comment4http://ayende.com/4603/lightswitch-initial-thoughts#comment4Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:54:08 GMT@Demis Bellot: I do not doubt your conclusions, but LightSwitch is "Enterprise Tool" after all... And Ayende loves "Enterprise Tools"! http://ayende.com/4603/lightswitch-initial-thoughts#comment3http://ayende.com/4603/lightswitch-initial-thoughts#comment3Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:02:35 GMTSomething to have in mind is the targetting people. http://ayende.com/4603/lightswitch-initial-thoughts#comment2http://ayende.com/4603/lightswitch-initial-thoughts#comment2Wed, 25 Aug 2010 05:56:51 GMTI'm surprised you're spending a lot of time reviewing it. After watching a couple vids my conclusions is that it looks like access only worse. http://ayende.com/4603/lightswitch-initial-thoughts#comment1http://ayende.com/4603/lightswitch-initial-thoughts#comment1Wed, 25 Aug 2010 05:41:43 GMT