>>>>Given that MS's 'mode of operation' around that time was 'buy whatever's better than we can produce, gut it and kill it' (anyone remember Stacker?), it's my belief that MS bought VFP 'cuz they couldn't out-Fox Fox with Access with the plan on yanking the good stuff, backhanding it into Access and howdy-poofda! LOOK! Better than Fox!! and homegrown to boot!!
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>>>Stacker, wow, that's a blast from the past. I do remember it and even had it. It filled a niche when hard drives were small capacity and expensive.
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>>Yup, until MS did a 'bait and switch' on them, got sued and lost.
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>Yeah, and I had to get in the car and drive an hour in snow and frost to fix whatever M$'s failed replacement for Stacker did to customer's tables. It was horrible.

I had a friend who used to go into stores that sold computers and would delete the DoubleStack control file, just for fun.