I’ve worked on numerous projects where we’ve developed our own frameworks and platforms from scratch and it was never really successful and I’m re-evaluating to rather use a commercial product to assist us with our product development. If you get a chance to develop an N-Tier system with a SOA layer from scratch would you recommend IdeaBlade with DevExpress? If not what other combinations would you recommend? Requirements: - SOA Layer - Business components - DAL with database independency as optional - Developer support - Easy upgradable - .NET - No Royalties