>>I remember those days well, lived through those days. I think you are right in your assumption. Who can blame Fox and Doc Dave for selling (tons of $$$), but I never once figured that it was going to be great for us developers in the long run as far as Fox was concerned.
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>I had exactly the opposite reaction. I couldn't have been happier.
>I was in the business of selling and modifying SBT software then and I happened to be with the SBT people when the purchase was announced.
>They thought that having MS behind them would give their product a big boost, and they were right.
>Unfortunately, the reverse occurred when MS withdrew support.
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SBT? You have my sympathy ;-) I did some work on it years ago for Karen Higgins's company and couldn't stand it. Karen said that was a common reaction. Another of her subcontractors was an ex-Microsoft guy who said Karen, I would do about anything for you but please don't ask me to do any more SBT.

That said, it was a fruitful partnership for Fox Software and, needless to say, SBT.