Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Empress pricing policy
Message-ID: <2159@looking.UUCP>
Date: 17 Oct 88 05:53:58 GMT
References: <1988Sep28.150224.26393@lsuc.uucp> <366@telly.UUCP> <4053@hcr.UUCP> <374@telly.UUCP> <12835@ncoast.UUCP>
Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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In article <12835@ncoast.UUCP> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>I once heard that Ashton-Tate's internal database is written in -=> Unify.
>Companies which don't use their own products aren't a very good argument for
>anyone else using their products....

That's not true at all.  dBase is a microcomputer product for small to
medium sized applications.  It is not intended to handle the major needs
of a company with 100 million dollars in sales like Ashton Tate.

I am sure that they have small internal databases maintained with dBase.

I know that at Personal Software, we tried to keep the accounting on
Visicalc for a while, but VisiCalc's own success demanded a mini based
system before too long.

If Ashton Tate did work with FoxBase, that would be a surprise.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473