This is a good point. For KSoft, the revenue stream for Visual dBase may be good in relation to the license fee they pay to Inprise. Essentially, Inprise is giving up the headaches, overhead expense, etc to somebody else, without giving up ownership. And, the best part of all, they actually have somebody paying for the privledge...

Clearly, it is not a positive thing. Visual dBase is being spun-off to some extent because it is viewed as not being strategic. I certainly would not want VFP to suffer the same fate....

>>Alan Katz??? This name is familiar to me, but I can't place from where exactly. Maybe someone else knows this name...JimB, how about you?
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>Alan Katz is a real dBase bigot. He used to derile VFP for VDbase a long
>while back in the Fox and dBase forums when he obviously didn't know what
>he was talking about at least in regards to VFP.
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>The whole thing looks to me like the final death blow for dBase... While
>it may be a fine product, being run by such a small company will only close
>further doors to entry of this products into current corportate markets.
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>+++ Rick ---