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From: alan@ahmcs.uucp (Alan Mintz)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Foxpro on SCO Xenix
Message-ID: <211@ahmcs.uucp>
Date: 22 Jun 91 00:52:30 GMT
References: <1991Jun20.182306.26927@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
Organization: Micro-Quick Systems, Inc.
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In article <1991Jun20.182306.26927@ucunix.san.uc.edu>, zureick@ucunix.san.uc.edu (John H. Zureick) writes:
> I received a mailing some time ago from SCO explaining that they had
> plans to bring Foxpro over to xenix or unix at some future date.   
> Yesterday while talking to a sales rep from SCO he told me that they
> have decided NOT to make Foxpro available, choosing instead to 
> concentrate on Oracle and Ingres.  Does anyone have the real true
> story on what is going the plans are for Foxpro and SCO?

The semi-official word from Fox Software is that they will be developing the
some_UNIX_platform product (the sale critter didn't know there were different
UNIX platforms) for release around 1st quarter of 1992. 

SCO has said that they will definitely NOT be porting Foxpro. In fact, there
will not be ANY further release of Foxbase+ for SCO XENIX/UNIX
(at least not from SCO). There will be (hopefully) a maintenance release
to fix some of the outstanding problems, but no new features will be added.
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< Alan H. Mintz  | alan@ahmcs.mq.com | ...!uunet!ahmcs!alan >