That's what I was suppossing when I googlee it. Thank's
>What's the link to Surplus Direct?
>They're no longer there. The company went bankrupt (Egghead bought them, changed them and killed off everything - the whole thing ended up bought by Amazon for inventory).
>It's interesting because the company had a good formula at the time and was technologically doing fine with a reliable and working Web site. However, when Egghead bought them there was politcal pressure to get off of Visual FoxPro which they eventually did - with horrible results.
>I wasn't involved at that stage, but I think that the technical problems (and the enormous development expenses associated with Oracle) with the Egghead and related sites was a big reason that they evenutally failed.
>It's a shame, because the original site was running a large amount of traffic using Visual FoxPro on very limited hardware. Thinking of what it could do on today's hardware and updated software tools is hard to imagine <g>... Of course if you don't have a business model to feed that imagination, there's little the technology can do <bg>...
