I noticed an interesting post (thanks to a Google Alert) in an ISV developer blog, questioning the viability of .NET for his program. In the post "Deciding on the future" the author of Modellers Assistant, ask himself if staying with :NET or going back native, thinking of C++Builder as a better option compared to Visual C++.

I noticed his doubts of having to keep playing catch up with .NET (form 2.0 to 3.5 today, to another version tomorrow, so all the time it used to stay on the latest version), his doubts about requiring (or distributing) a huge framework of which he uses a fraction of the features ("this led me to think about whether I need the framework at all. In short the answer is no."), his doubts on MFC as a good native alternative... Too bad he's not considering Delphi!