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From: awd@dbase.A-T.COM (Alastair Dallas)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: dBASE IV 1.1 Upgrade
Summary: I was wrong (sort of)
Keywords: dBASE IV, Ashton-Tate
Message-ID: <434@dbase.A-T.COM>
Date: 15 Feb 90 22:37:54 GMT
References: <429@dbase.A-T.COM>
Organization: Ashton Tate Development Center Glendale, Calif.
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I'm sorry: My "official" announcement of the upgrade policy appears to
be wrong.  My source was in A-T corporate marketing, and I thought he
understood he was speaking for the record.  Everything I said may still
be correct, but it doesn't matter, because:

Ashton-Tate is currently running ads whose fine print says that if you
buy 1.0 today you get 1.1 free.  Period.  Sorry if there was any 
confusion.  

(The exact quote is: "A free update to version 1.1 (standard edition and
Developer's Edition only) if you buy dBASE IV 1.0 or dBASE IV Developer's
Edition now.  This offer applies to dBASE IV Developer's Edition packages
purchased between September 1, 1989 and the first customer ship date of
dBASE IV 1.1.  Offer good in the U.S. and Canada only."  This is from 
the "With dBASE IV, everyone's a critic" ad in InfoWorld, 
Feb. 12, p.14.)

/alastair/