BreakPoint
LabView vs LabWindows/CVI
I work for the largest European Defence company, and it has looked at VEE, played with LabView, but standardised on CVI for test applications. It is just so powerful and flexible. From a military perspective, documentation and code maintainability is so much more important than in the commercial world and again this favours a conventional text based language in preference to a visual one.
Besides, Labview is just for college students, isn't it? Real programmers use CVI! 
JR
There would be a shallower learning curve to go to CVI with an extensive C background. The documentation/comparison arguements are also valid. I did work in the defense industry, for one of the largest in the world, and it has and is still using LabVIEW extensively on a number of projects. I in fact was the one to introduce it to the fairly large facility I worked at back in 1992. Recently, contracting to another company that was sub-contracting to "The Big One", I wrote much of the signal generation and shaping code for a sonar project using LabVIEW Real-Time and FPGA, something that would have been VERY much harder using C, would have involved VHDL coding or Verilog, to accomplish. It was supposed to be a 3 person 6 month project, ended up being a 1 person 7 month one, but if I had to write a realtime replacement in C, etc., that had parts running on an FPGA it would have taken me longer (even when my VHDL/Verilog/C++ skills were sharp).
Not apples to oranges.
