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From: shevett@mccc.edu (Dave Shevett)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: FOXBASE QUESTIONS
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.135744.19360@mccc.edu>
Date: 29 Apr 91 13:57:44 GMT
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In article <73750@brunix.UUCP> pew@cs.brown.edu (Peter E. Wagner) writes:
=In article <12518@sybase.sybase.com>, georg@spanky.sybase.com (Georg Carlson) writes:
[Georg cautions about using FoxBase/Mac, due to numerous bugs, problems
and repeated patches distributed by Fox]

=I can't say anything about Foxbase Mac, never used it, but this is the
=first I've heard of problems with it.  At any rate, I'd just like to
=say that Fox Software is the best software company I've ever dealt
=with.  

I concur!  We have an entire business revolving around the Fox products,
and have had Excellent support from Fox, and the products (FoxBase,
and FoxPro) are masterful pieces of coding.

=I've used Foxbase and FoxPro in the MS-DOS environment
=and never been anything but impressed by how competent the people at
=Fox Software are.

We've got almost 120,000 lines of code running now under FoxBase and 
FoxPro.  FoxPro's initial release had some *minor* bugs in it, that were
easily worked around, and the update to FoxPro 1.02 was out within 6 weeks.
We were involved in Beta-testing FoxPro, and boy you want to see a package
evolve, watch a package go from .97 to 1.0 in a few months...  fascinating.

AT ANY RATE - FoxPro 2.0 is due out any minute now, and I have a question.
Fox has made some minor noise about using this system on other platforms.
Any realism in this?  We have some applications in SCO Foxbase, and would
love to be able to run FoxPro under SCO Unix.  Any input?

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