Fabian Pascal. Those were the days. ;-)
As for Jeff: he was predicting the death of FP long before 1995, making him an uber-prophet. Interestingly, his proposed safe haven (dBase) hasn't done so well... and neither has ADO/VB to which we were urged to flock by certain other prophets.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
