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From: mdf@osu-eddie.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Foxbase is only for Xenix
Message-ID: <3548@osu-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14-May-87 21:11:07 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 14 21:11:07 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 16-May-87 14:50:22 EDT
References: <7@trouble.UUCP>
Reply-To: mdf@osu-eddie.UUCP (Mark D. Freeman)
Organization: InfoSolv Corporation; Columbus, OH. (guest of Ohio State U.)
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In <7@trouble.UUCP> rgb@trouble.UUCP (bob bookbinder) writes:
>>In article <851@runx.ips.oz>, janm@runx.ips.oz (Jan Mikkelsen) writes:
>> FoxBase+ is supposed to be a dBase III+ clone. I haven't had anything to do
>> with it. I think Blue Sky Industries have it ... I could be wrong there though!
>	Foxbase comes from SCO (Santa Cruz Operation) 800 626-8649.
>As far as I know it will only work on selected Xenix systems.  I spoke
>to SCO about three months ago about supporting Foxbase on Suns since
>the Sun will run programs designed for SYS V, but all I got was a flat NO.
>They said there was not enough need???????

FoxBase+ is a product of Fox Research.  They have given SCO exclusive marketing
rights to the XENIX version.  There are no plans for a generic UNIX version.
Fox will sell MS-DOS versions, SCO will sell the XENIX versions.

The above is what I got out a discussion with folks from Fox at UNIFORUM.

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