Oh Beane, Beane, Beane, you silly person. You, with your mere 25 years experience in this field question the wisdom of the guy who has already exposed Rod Paddock and Rick Strahl as 'has beens'. You doubt that he knows more about how to make money in the software business that Bill Gates or Steve Balmer? I mean, this is Terry Thurber, for God's sake. Yes, that's right ... THE Terry Thurber. Just look back on his collected posts and ask yourself - who are we to question anything that comes from someone who obviously is plugged into a source of knowledge WAAAY beyond our comprehension.

And you will also see that on the drivel-meter this particular efluvium isn't even close to a personal best :-)

>>Don't worry about it. The market is saturated with xBase. MS's stock did good when MS was a market follower and MS users were customers. When MS attempted to be a Market Leader, it's stock plunged and customers became a "market".
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>>MS does not invent technology - MS buys technology (it's cheaper).
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>>Even the dominance of MS's OS is suspect.
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>>For MS to drop it's xBase line might be the best thing that could happen. So don't worry about it. Somebody will take up the slack - and who knows - we might get a better tool and we won't have to watch to see what side of the mouth someone is talking through! And MS can have the 12 NOT disciples that preach here all to themselves. Now thats a market!
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>>Don't worry - despite her self indulgence - MS is not what she used to be - and MS rarely - if ever - invents her own product concepts. Screw em - they need us and our users more than we need them. So relax Dennis - you will be doing cool stuff tomorrow - MS is the one that needs to worry!:-)
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>Congratulations. I think this is the most nonsense I have ever read in a single post.
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>Mike