>Doug,
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>> Computer Associates purchased Nantucket, the creator of Clipper. Where is
>> Clipper today.
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>Clipper was replaced by Visual Objects by CA (no that it had much success)

VO was way different than Clipper. It didn't resemble it at all. At least VFP resembles FoxPro 2x.

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>> Ashton-Tate purchased dBASE. Where is dBASE today?
>Ashton-Tate was the creator of dBase, Borland bought it and then sold it, now is db2k (www.dbase.com)

Actually, no. dBase was invented by Wayne Ratliff while working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, although it was called Vulcan then.