I Dont see Visual DBase but, in www.dbase2000.com you read about open any Databasew (N Tier) OOP paradigm, open source and porting to Linux, well Microsoft still Report designer no OO and Menu no OO ,dont use the same DML for manage any database (Imagine use the same commands to open and manipulate Oracle or SQL Server directly), and all enterprise is committed with .Net stuff where put from the desktop to internet, eventually the Linux market is growing , where do you go today?

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P.D. I Love Fox and hate Basic ,i could be use C# o VDBase or see VB.Net in case Microsoft stay no supporting the world of Fox, but like you i still with this cool tool

>>http://www.dbase.com
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>>has anyone any experience with the modern dBase? seeing as that MS insists on avoiding direct answers as to how long VFP will still be receiving it's meagre attention, i thought it would be interesting to revisit something where they have a publicly stated long term commitment to product development.
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>>john
>Naturally dBase, Inc. would be committed to development of their only product and their only reason to exist. I suppose that Inprise spun them off because they lacked that commitment.
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>I see two ways of looking at their open source initiative:
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>1) They are courageously embracing a bold new product development paradigm that will prove superior.
>2) They realize that they lack the resources to develop a competitive product and desperately hope that others will care enough to do some of the work for free.
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>The page that has "A personal note from AAK" (whoever he is) describes his comparison of some version of dBase with other products including some version of Visual FoxPro. The only specific complaint he mentions about VFP (in an admittedly brief essay) was the fact that the code behind forms isn't available all in one window. Is that all? Well no. Also, in general, he is saying that Visual dBase has an easier learning curve than the others, but still has inheritance.