SQL 2008? I'm quite happily using 3.5 stuff against SQL 2000 and SQL 2005.

Does the project use any web services or remoting, or involve any kind of workflow? If so, they'd be mental to ignore WCF or WF. Tell them I said so.

My work involves web services. A ruddy great lot of it. That said, I'm coding the front-ends in Flex, so I'm already asking for trouble.

I'm not sure what the issue was with SQL 2008. I think it was the product itself rather than the interaction between the two, but who am I to know, I only use it to store text and draw lines between tables.

• you're a platform decision maker;
• you're moving to Visual Studio 2008;
• you're making extensive use of web services;
• and you're not using Windows Communication Foundation, then you need to seriously consider whether you've made the right career choices, because you're an idiot.