>>Fellow UTers,
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>>I just read the article under latest headlines "Major vendors to push Linux to the desktop".
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>>http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/11/24/46NNdesktop_1.html
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>>There is no doubt the Linux desktop is coming fast and strong! This is a HUGE new market for a desktop database development tool and consulting. So I am wondering since MS isn't going to do it who's going to fill the demand for a Linux database development product?
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>>Remember the days when MS wasn't such a big greedy monopoly and VFP was cross-platform? If ever there was an ideal opportunity for MS to expand VFP in a market that didn't directly compete with it's beloved, bet-the-company .NET this is it!
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>>Oh ya, I keep forgetting MS doesn't want anyone else to know about VFP because it's too self-sufficient and it doesn't make them enough money. Well regardless the company that puts it out, I'll be first in line to get my hands on it.
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>>Happy Thanksgiving!
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>Check out
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>www.recital.com
>www.fship.com
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>As far a server databases, there are already many, mySql, Interbase, Oracle, Progress.
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>BOb

Bob,

Very cool! Thanks for the links, they're just what I am looking for.

Server databases I know about, it's the cross-platform desktop databases and tools I don't.

Thanks again