>>I think probably most people thought it was good news when they were bought by MSFT. But, I would think anyone who had met the team (in Toledo) knew it would not be the same once they were swallowed up by MSFT. Those 5 or 6 guys (and gals) were programming circles around Ashton-Tate, etc.
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>Indeed they were. Choosing between DBase and FoxBASE was a no-brainer!
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>To be fair, you'd have to admit that VFP9 showed some pretty slick improvements over what MS got when they bought it.
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>That said, the MS agenda was a bit heavy-handed when they dropped the SCO-Unix and MAC versions.
>I was running several SCO-Unix Fox applications then and they were easily the most efficient and cost effective systems I've ever seen.
>Once MS pulled the plug and made future versions Windows only, I reluctantly converted them to LAN applications.
>That was another MS oddity. They had bought a big piece of SCO shortly before that.
>Our conspiracy theorists here can have a field day with that one.
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What I always heard was that Fox only released the Unix version in the first place because they had promised it to some large corporate customers. I was told it sold 900 copies. Dropping it sounds like a business decision to me, not a conspiracy.