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Okay, obviously you're a MS .NET salesman.

Let's have an ethical salesman test:

What do you tell clients about:

Already known problems with .NET?
Using a 1.0 release of *anything* for mission critical work (which is considered professional incompetence in the IT industry)?
Using a brand-new technology from MS (which clearly in the past has been a bad thing)?
The problems of using IIS as your web server (which, again, is considered professional incompetence in the IT industry)?
The fact that the vast majority of real servers are Unix or Linux, which won't run .NET for years?

Surely if you're an ethical salesman, you inform your prospective clients of the truth, yes? So I'm honestly curious -- how would you respond to an informed client raising these issues?

These are serious, honest concerns that a business must be on top of. You can destroy a business by using a buggy release of a new, untested technology. I'd like to know how you answer such concerns?

The main reason I ask is that I've got past experience with other MS salesmen who promised that NT 4.0, IIS, Win2k, WinXP and now .NET are ready for prime time. Then when the problems popped up and projects had to be killed or migrated to Java, and it became apparent the salesman lied and didn't tell us about known problems, the salesman just vanished and left our company twisting in the wind. I could tell you a loooong story about this last fella who sold part of our accounting dept on trying IIS/Win2k/SQLServer 7. That one small platform gave us more trouble than all our big iron together . . .

So alieve my fears that you are just such a salesman. MS salesman are famous for lofty, untrue promises around here. How would you answer these questions?