Excellent shot in the arm! I posted a comment on the article. Gil
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dave Bernard > Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 9:43 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: FoxPro Lives! > > > http://redmondmag.com/reports/article.asp?EditorialsID=444 > > "FoxPro Lives! > I spent years covering databases for InfoWorld and Computerworld, and > perhaps the liveliest market of all was FoxPro. Originally a > dBase clone, it > grew to outshine the Ashton-Tate tool and was eventually bought by > Microsoft. > > > > I even spent a week in Orlando at a FoxPro user group, and boy, > those folks > were hardcore. Some looked like they hadn't left their keyboard > in a decade! > > > > Microsoft tried to kill off FoxPro in favor of both Access and SQL Server, > but users never let 'em. > > > > So what is Microsoft to do? Build a brand-new version that's .NET > 2.0-compliant and works with Visual Studio. With this kind of > tweaking, I'd > give FoxPro another 10 years, at least!" > > > > > > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > multipart/alternative > text/plain (text body -- kept) > text/html > --- > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
