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From: shevett@dworkin.UUCP ( Sysop)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Foxpro on SCO Xenix
Message-ID: <51@dworkin.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jun 91 03:28:34 GMT
References: <1991Jun20.182306.26927@ucunix.san.uc.edu> <79012@brunix.UUCP>
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pew@cs.brown.edu (Peter E. Wagner) writes:
>In article <1991Jun20.182306.26927@ucunix.san.uc.edu>, zureick@ucunix.san.uc.edu (John H. Zureick) writes:
>|> Yesterday while talking to a sales rep from SCO he told me that they
>|> have decided NOT to make Foxpro available
>|> 

>From a Fox Software press release of a few weeks ago:
>For the future, versions of FoxPro for Windows, the Apple Macintosh, and
>UNIX/Xenix are under development, with a Fox client/server solution planned
>for 1992 to further extend the power and scope of this new technology.
>I suspect that Fox is doing the Unix version themselves.

You suspect correctly.  From a conversation I had with a fellow asked to
port FoxPro to Sun's, there was a big bruhaha involving licensing FoxBase
to SCO.  Apparently Fox pretty much said "Here's FoxBase for the PC in
all it's source code form.  From now on, it's your problem."  Once that
cut was made, Fox wouldn't touch the SCO product.  There was a lot of
issues in the works when the question of 'Who will do FoxPro for Unix'
came up, and Fox won out, saying they'll do it themselves.

I personally am looking forward to it with *BAITED* breath.  We have
several applications under DOS that are screaming for Unix ports, but
the FoxBase under Unix is too limited in keyboard and video handling 
to be worth it. 

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