I was surfing around and stumbled across the dbase website: www.dbase.com. It is an interesting community. Good technical content and decent newsgroups - which can be found at news.dbase.com.

What I was impressed with were the number of new features and bug fixes in the product - which can be found at:

http://www.dbase.com/Cnt/dB2Kfeaturesandfixes.htm

I was also impressed by the content with respect to web-app related features of their product. Their C/S story regarding connectivity is very interesting.

On the newsgroups, somebody asked why the ability to create ActiveX controls was not being considered. A rep from the company said that their strategy did not lie in making huge investments in a specific platforms like windows. Rather, their strategy lies in trying to remain as platform neutral as possible.

Intrestingly enough, they had a contest to change the name of the language. It is now known as dBl.

It will be interesting to see if they go forward with a Linux version. If Linux does take off - it would appear they will be positioned very well.

I get the impression that the product has escaped a level of oppression that know gives it a positive client in which to flouish.

Is this where you would like to be?

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