>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.
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>What I was impressed with were the number of new features and bug fixes in the product - which can be found at:
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>http://www.dbase.com/Cnt/dB2Kfeaturesandfixes.htm
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>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.
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>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.
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>Intrestingly enough, they had a contest to change the name of the language. It is now known as dBl.
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>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.
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>I get the impression that the product has escaped a level of oppression that know gives it a positive client in which to flouish.
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>Is this where you would like to be?
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>< jvp >

I found the site to be misleading with its statements on Open Source. What they mean is new tools will be open source. Woohoo! I could not find any place where the entire product be open source. And without open source, I don't think the Linux community is going to pay much attention. They already have philosophical problems with Sun/Java. Why would they jump ship to a prodcut that is also proprietary?

And I loved the founder's comments on VFP and VB:

http://www.dbase.com/Frm/ModuleCompany.htm

VFP's editors work with "snippets", not with source code files and VB has no inheritance.

Is that supposed to be some stinging rebuttal of VFP? And I think we know were you stand on VB's inheritance.