>>You know, I think this statement is unfair in the extreme. No offense, but if it was just about the money, then FoxPro would have been cancelled shortly after it served the purpose of killing Borland (at the time). And that was when? Close to a decade ago? Many products in this industry don't have a decade of total life span.
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>Now that the product is finished and it doesn't matter, I would like to hear the real, detailed story of Foxpro at Microsoft. At first Microsoft was advertising the product and put a large number of developers on VFP3, so as some cynics say, Microsoft just didn't buy the product to get the technology and kill it. There seems to have been some sense of keeping it (at first).

I think Bill Gates summed it up best when he said "We don't anticipate any growth in the dBase market".

That was the impetus behind VFP3. Corner the dBase market. There hasn't been a dBase market for many years.

It was a heady time at Flash in those days. We had the alpha of VFP3 (still called Foxpro for Windows 3.0 at that time), and at the same time Borland was trying to get us interested in their early work on dBase for Windows, which was nowhere near as far along. Each tried to pump us for information about the other. LOL