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From: markc@sql.sybase.com (Mark Chojnacki)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Foxpro on SCO Xenix
Keywords: FoxBASE+ SCO ports
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Date: 25 Jun 91 18:03:15 GMT
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shevett@mccc.edu (Dave Shevett) writes:
>pew@cs.brown.edu (Peter E. Wagner) writes:
>
>>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.

Also, at the time of the negotiations between SCO and Fox Software, the
marketing manager for SCO FoxBASE+ at SCO left SCO to join Fox Software.
However, this doesn't mean development work with FoxBASE+ is dead at SCO.
In fact, custom ports to other versions of UNIX (under contract to OEMs)
were being done at SCO Canada the last time I checked. These were based
on the current version of SCO FoxBASE+ (2.1.2).

(I should know...I was managing them up until the time I left SCO...:-))

I don't know of any plans by SCO to upgrade FoxBASE+ under SCO UNIX.

Mark Chojnacki
SQL Solutions, Toronto, Canada
markc@sql.sybase.com