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From: pew@cs.brown.edu (Peter E. Wagner)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: moving to unix from DOS dBase
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Date: 1 Apr 91 15:27:01 GMT
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In article <1991Mar29.202515.26357@odin.corp.sgi.com>, hajadi@goofy.csd.sgi.com (Ivan Hajadi) writes:
|> 
|> My friend's company plans to move from DOS to unix system.  The initial
|> unix system will be 386 running SCO or Interactive unix, later on they
|> will buy sparc based unix systems.
|> 
|> The current applications mostly written in dBase III+.  They know
|> dBase IV unix version, but they would like to know whether other dBase
|> tools such as Clipper also available on unix platforms.
|> 
|> At this point, they don't think moving to oracle or sybase is possible,
|> but they would like to know other's experience when moving from dos to
|> unix database.
|> 

SCO has Foxbase for Unix.  I believe they are working on FoxPro for
Unix.  Foxbase is 100% compatible with dBase III+.  I'm sure you would
be very happy with this switch.

    Peter

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Peter E. Wagner                                 pew@cs.brown.edu
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