>Well weren't we all nervous when Fox sold to MS???? I know I was. And in general, I feel that those fears have proven to be founded! Yet I continue to use the product and it definitely is harder to 'sell' than it used to be.
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>Fox went from a small company to HUGE corporation and we have reaped the costs (in terms of service, flexibility, etc) of that move.
>One would expect that a move from a BIG to a small company would be a bonus for the developers. Plus there is little chance of anyone persistently rumouring that dBASE got the contract so they could kill it.
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>Jim N

Yes, we were all perhaps a bit nervous when MS first acquired Fox Software, but from where I sit, any fears proved unfounded. Would the Fox team have been able to create an OOP product like VFP3 without the resources of an MS behind them? And where would we as FoxPro developers be today if they hadn't? The original Fox Software was an excellent small company with an innovative idea, the value of which is evidenced by the price MS paid for it. But without the resources of a Microsoft behind its continued development, I doubt we'd have the tool we have today.

As for Visual dBASE, corporations don't divest themselves of their winners. So as I said before, let's hope this works out to be a good thing, but if I were a VdB developer I'd be plenty worried right about now.