>>>Richard LaValley, one of the original founders of Fox Software has died at 86.
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>>>http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/toledoblade/obituary.aspx?n=richard-lavalley&pid=175758622&fhid=6347
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>>Certainly a sad piece of news.
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>>But always bears repeating - the story of Fox Software pulling the massive "David slays Goliath"-style victory over Ashton Tate is one of the greatest software stories of our adult lifetimes. The boys in Perrysburg didn't just beat Ashton Tate and dBase IV - they kicked the living you-know-what out of them.
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>Absolutely
>The time it took for me to make the decision to switch from Dbase to Foxbase was about 5 minutes.
>All credits and no debits.
>Not many decisions around like that one.

You're right...switching from dBase to Fox was a very easy decision.

As much as I love SQL Server, I've always said that the two biggest software releases in my lifetime (when looking at the era of the release) were Turbo C in 1987 and then FoxPro in 1989. The PC-based developer/analyst had some awesome tools to use. Honorable mention to the boys in Canada at Sequitur Software, makers of CodeBase. By the early '90's, I had the holy grail....a C application that could utilize Fox tables at Rushmore-level speed. Those were the glory days