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From: AR.HFN@forsythe.stanford.edu (Hooshyar Naraghi)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Foxpro on SCO Xenix
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.030619.974@morrow.stanford.edu>
Date: 26 Jun 91 03:06:19 GMT
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In article <79012@brunix.UUCP>,
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:
>|> 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?
>|>
>
>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.
>
>    Peter

I asked one of Fox Regional Managers in a Foxpro 2.0 demo session in
San Francisco, and he confirmed that yes Fox is going to take on the
Foxpro/Unix project itself.

He said that the R&D team was just starting to tackle the problem of
chr-based windows on dumb terminals!  As to the shipping date, he
remained silent but quietly mentioned the beginning of '92.

Hooshyar F. Naraghi
(415) 324-1055
AR.HFN@forsythe.stanford.edu