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From: awd@dbase.A-T.COM (Alastair Dallas)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: dBASE IV 1.1 Upgrade
Keywords: dBASE IV, Ashton-Tate
Message-ID: <429@dbase.A-T.COM>
Date: 14 Feb 90 19:51:17 GMT
Organization: Ashton Tate Development Center Glendale, Calif.
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I have been asked for an "official" statement about upgrading dBASE IV 1.0
to 1.1.  I apologize for the delay, but "official" takes longer than
"off-the-cuff."  In fact, this may or may not be "official," and it is
far from "definitive."  Enough weasel-wording:

If you bought dBASE IV 1.0 prior to some date (my source said January 1),
you will get dBASE IV 1.1 free.  Likewise, if you buy dBASE IV 1.0 within
60 days of the First Customer Ship of 1.1, you get a free upgrade.  If
we don't ship 1.1 soon, there is a potential for people who buy 1.0 today
to miss both of these windows.  Obviously, we recognize that announcing
either a first customer ship > Jan 1 + 60 days or an extension of the
Jan 1 date would have an immediate negative impact on sales, so we haven't
make such as announcement.  The official ship date for 1.1 is "soon,"
and we don't think any 1.0 owners will have to pay for an upgrade.

I'd like to stress that I am not an official spokesman for Ashton-Tate.
My advice is to verify the free upgrade before buying a copy of 1.0 any
time from now until 1.1 ships.

Hope that answers the question, because that's as "official" as I'm
likely to get.  (Don't shoot me, I'm just a programmer.)

/alastair/