Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!ccnysci!alexis From: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: Dbase compilers information Message-ID: <1701@ccnysci.UUCP> Date: 23 Apr 89 11:48:36 GMT References: <2430@cps3xx.UUCP> <13583@ncoast.ORG> Reply-To: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen) Organization: City College of New York Lines: 30 In article <13583@ncoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes: >| It is no secret that Foxbase+ is the fastest gun in the land!! > >It's also no secret that Ashton-Tate's ARCing over about it. (Think about >it....) Frankly, I suspect that that lawsuit will benefit Oracle, Informix, >the folks who make R:Base, et al. more than it will A-T or Fox; I, for one, >would steer clear of both products and anything similar to dBase until the >legal shenanigans are concluded. A rewrite now is cheaper than a rewrite >later (or a speed loss possibly hitched to a price hike, if A-T wins). > >Just my opinion, you understand. And a very poor opinion it is. (IM-not-so-HO) Fox will be releasing FoxPro in a few months. I have seen it and used it; it is real, not barely-condensing vapor. It is so different from dBase in all the visual areas (not to mention better) that there is no possibility of a legal attack on it by Ashton-Tate. Also, Fox is not the tiny company it was just a year ago. It is a Big Player. I am completely serious when I say that it may well unseat dBase as the PC standard in the next year (and I don't base this judgement on naive technical criteria). Whether is takes the number one spot, or "merely" grabs a strong number two, they've already got sufficient financial muscle to cope easily with Ashton-Tate's lawsuit. --- Alexis Rosen alexis@ccnysci.{uucp,bitnet} alexis@rascal.ics.utexas.edu (last resort)