Jim,
I totally agree with you except for the stage of VO development at the CA buyout. What we (as UG leaders) heard was that the VO code they bought was essentially unusable, thus accounting for some of the delay bringing it out.

Barbara


>Hi Barbara,
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>I'm not sure that was all CA. Nantucket was pretty well into VO development when CA bought it out -- at least they said they were in their announcements.
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>IMHO someone made a very early decision not to try to preserve _any_ procedural code in VO. Consequently while Clipper syntax survived in VO it was virtually a separate app dev environment for DOS emulation within VO. A very crazy arrangement. VFP did it much better...
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>My big gripe with VO, however, was that I could never keep the d__n registry up long enough to get anything done. Working with VO's registry has got to be like poking around a bomb to see if it will blow up. The compile and pray approach to OOPs. And over $1,000 for this turkey!
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>Well, they paid the price. No one I know still works in Clipper or VO except to maintain older apps -- then its usually one of the Nantucket versions.
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>Wave goodbye, Charlie Wang!
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>regards,