>>I respectfully disagree. MSFT was locked in a fierce battle with Borland over the dBase market and they threw everything they had at it. Calvin Hsia? Eric Rudder. who was one of about 5 guys who reported directly to Bill Gates? They were very serious about it.
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>I think by the time MS bought Fox, most of the heat of the dBase wars was winding down. While MS was enhancing Fox between 1993 and 1996, Borland sort of split their efforts between dBase for Windows and Delphi. I really don't think MS thought they had serious competition when they were enhancing Fox. Actually, I think many Fox developers in the early-mid 90's felt that their greatest competition came from Access.
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>One of the "it almost happened but didn't moments" was in the late 1980's when Borland was seriously looking at a Turbo dBase to complement their Turbo product line. But Phil K just didn't think there was enough justification - he though client-server would have more emphasis.

Access? What a joke. You could pull a guy off a bus and he could do Access.