Re:It's a race (Score 1)

I don't seem to remember any claims by MS that VB and VB.NET were compatible or ASP.NET would be compatible with classic ASP. What they provided were conversion tools instead.

It was pretty obvious from the get go that the .NET was a completely different technology from ASP/VB/COM and that your legacy apps were never gonna run without a fair bit of work either with the conversion tools or a rewrite. MS never made any noises to suggest otherwise.