Mike, there were several versions. None could be called exemplary, but some were better than others.
Modification code that we inherited was generally low quality.
Just about anyone could get something to work with Foxpro and they often did... with modifications to SBT!

The best version was published around 1998. It used VFP 5 and made a serious attempt at using OOP and largely succeeded. The VAR's who jumped on the OOP bandwagon - including ourselves- saw a nice bump in productivity. I believe that Drew Speedie had been involved in the overall design of that version.
Later versions, produced after SBT sold out, were abominations and caused us to stop selling the product.




>>Sage Software, the purchaser of ACCPAC, the purchaser of SBT, announced this week that it is "retiring" Sage Pro, the current iteration of SBT's 1995 smash VFP hit, Pro Series.
>>Among other things, Sage cited Microsoft's plan to stop supporting VFP as a reason.
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>>Between 1995 and 2000 many of us were keeping large staffs busy selling and supporting Pro Series. It was, and still is, one of the most versatile accounting systems ever developed, principally because Bob Davies, SBT's founder, had the vision to supply source code with the product.
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>>Because our clients have the source code, Sage's decision will have little impact on our clients and as long as VFP runs Pro Series will be a viable product.
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>>The last I heard Bob has retired and was sailing in Caribbean.
>>Pro Series can now join him.
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>>Under the "What will these guys stoop to next" heading the announcement from Sage urged Pro Series customers not to drop their annual support payments although Sage will not longer be selling or supporting the product.
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>>Huh???
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>I have seen SBT source code and it did not fill me with delight. I worked on some enhancements to an SBT add-on product and went to a week long SBT internals class. Maybe it was just my oddball reaction but I really hated it.
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>You make a good point that Microsoft dropping support for VFP does have an impact in the corporate world. Just last week I was contacted about a contract opportunity with a Fortune 100 company in Southern California (rhymes with Bank of America). The recruiter said they are rewriting a very large line of business VFP app specifically because it is no longer supported. I said not many people depend on Microsoft support to begin with. He said I know that but they don't know that. He said those kind of decisions are made in Charlotte and they don't have a clue what's going on out here.