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From: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Bugs in McMax 2.0
Message-ID: <1498@ccnysci.UUCP>
Date: 4 Apr 89 22:31:23 GMT
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Reply-To: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
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Steve Goldfield complains about bugs in McMax 2.0

The only choice is to get FoxBase. It is infinitely better. It will also run
all your programs from 1.0 (99% likelyhood you won't have to make any
modifications, and if you do they'll be minimal).

McMax will never (that's in "computer time") be a good product because they
are devoting all their energy to the DOS market. In contrast, there will
have been TWO very major upgrades to FoxBase in one year, between upgrades
of the Fox PC product.

Especially if you are writing a lot of code, FoxBase is worth almost any price.
If you have McMax and you're poor, buy FoxBase anyway. It's worth skipping
lunches for. (In the time you'll save doing developement work, you could get
a second job to pay for it...) And it's not so expensive- $395 list.

FoxBase is nas close to bug-free as I've ever seen a substantial application
get. It's also the first DMBS developement environment I've ever used on any
system that was actually a pleasure to use.

I am not affiliated with Fox Software except as an extremely satisfied tester
and user of their software.
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Alexis Rosen
alexis@ccnysci.{uucp,bitnet}