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From: bruce@mdi386.UUCP (Bruce A. McIntyre)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: dBASE IV - is this for real?
Summary: (Ashton was a Parrot fool... You talked to a PARROT??)
Message-ID: <103@mdi386.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jul 89 02:10:17 GMT
References: <9383@xanth.cs.odu.edu> <661@levels.sait.edu.au>
Organization: Wells Computer Systems Corp., Levittown, Pa. 19058
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In article <661@levels.sait.edu.au>, marwk@levels.sait.edu.au writes:
> In article <9383@xanth.cs.odu.edu>, aiko@cs.odu.edu (John K Hayes) writes:
> > [ Much Maligning Deleted ]
> [Additional Maligning Deleted ] 
> This makes the product dBASE III+ UNRELIABLE and it is my opinion that it
> should not be used.
> 
> Furthermore, having spoken to both Ashton and Tate some years ago while I
                      ^^^^^^         ^^^^^^     ^^^^
> was developing a moderately large system, I am very dissatisfied with their
> attitude. 
> 
> Ray Kennington

I realize that dBASE IV is [expletive deleted], but in an attempt to wow
us with your connections, you missed the point... While George Tate was/is
a real person, and one I enjoyed talking to, Ashton was a GREEN PARROT, and
I don't know anyone who managed to hold a reasonable conversation with him.
I don't wonder that you were dissatisfied with his attitude, dude!

Ashton-Tate has missed the boat, and in fact, is going no-where with it...
I believe that on every point the third party folks are passing them by,
while really meaningful applications are moving on to other environments...
dBASE was wonderful while it lasted, but they are now turning it into a
pale image of Paradox..., but that doesn't mean that there are not a great
deal of wonderful answers for users with dBASEIV, it's just that there are
now other, better answers..
bruce

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