>>Look, I'm not saying that Microsoft has done a good job of marketing VFP over the years. They haven't.
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>>But I am tired of the claim that Microsoft bought FoxPro just to kill it. As I said, if that was their plan, they executed it exceptionally poorly.
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>>Tamar
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>It's obvious they didn't intend to kill it immediately. Honestly I can't fathom WHAT their intent was because it makes absolutely no sense to me the way it was handled over the years.
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>They did stuff the fox in a closet though - only developers who had used previous versions or who needed DBF access were allowed to peek in the closet.


They bought FoxPro because they were competing with Borland for developer tool supremacy and didn't want Borland having an Xbase tool while they didn't.