Mine was a big long-winded, but what the heck:

>RE: Window Manager column on "Oterro"
>
>"Oterro" sounds like the product MS should have been producing and marketing
>all along to handle the inadequacies of both MS Access
>and MS SQL Server.
>
>What if I told you that MS has a database product that is fast,
>relational, inexpensive, has an ODBC-compliant database engine,
>runs on Win95 and WinNT, loves to operate in 32Mb of RAM, supports
>a full object-oriented programming model, doesn't require a
>dedicated database administrator, and will handle a million rows
>of data with ease? This product is MS Visual FoxPro 5.0.
>
>VB developers have hit the wall over and over because their
>product is a programming language with a database interface. Do
>they really need to add yet another database interface?
>
>They ought to consider their sister product in Visual Studio, VFP5.
>Consider it not only for the feature set previously listed, but,
>if you're doing an application that is considered a database app,
>you won't be hurt by using a tool that is an actual database develop-
>ment tool that was built to handle data and lots of it.
>
>MS Visual FoxPro comes with a royalty-free unlimited license for
>developers to distribute their apps to as many users as they need,
>whether it be "two network users or 200."
>
>Microsoft already has a good solid mid-range solution for doing
>database application work. Take a look at Visual FoxPro.
>

I also get him a reference to a URL that was an article/review that
appeared in InfoWorld in June 96.