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Re 4D
For the past 7 years I have had in my office one developer after another
(yes you read that right, 7 years)
Attempt to write an application using 4D

It application finally failed. Many reasons, but not becuase of lack of funding or effort.
The owner at my company loves his mac, and his brother owns a company who writes software using 4D... They thought they could write an entire DBMS to compete with something from Oracle, or Informix, using a multiplatform RAD product like 4D and give the owner his MAC look and feel, the stability of a major DBMS and the PC - users their own desktop / pc enviroment
Sounded too good to be true.
On the surface 4D can handle it, but.... so many things can and do go wrong with attempting to develop for one GUI and then porting it to another... from screen refresh issues. to fonts, to scrollwheels you name it. Macs have one way of doing things, pc's have another.
Long Long story short, we are using the 4D app (managed by one of the MAc guys here as a web server, and having both mac and pc's view that data on the web with an html interface. The data is now being exported and put into our new informix server for the future.

I dont know why I wrote this, but it might be helpful.
Bob Lee




>>The question is what was the last version of Fox that could be used to write programs for the mac?

>Those in business the longest include Omnis Quartz (now sold by Raining Data Corp), and 4th Dimension -- a French product. Both companies have options to deploy apps in n-Tier fashions. However, do note that the languages are proprietary and idiosyncratic, data structures are proprietary (unless using the client/server capabilities) and have a complex and expensive pricing structure for licensing.

>For good reason, the Mac database environment is a specialty market.
> Jay