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sarettah · 08-06-2016, 01:56 PM

I ended up working in FoxPro because of Ashton-Tate selling DBase to Borland.

This was back in November '91 I think, right at the time that Ashton-Tate sold Dbase to Borland.

We were workign with the cheap version of DBase, without any compiler, not even sure that it was a licensed copy actually. We had a bunch of DBase code all written up and tested in the IDE and we needed to compile it. So we went out to buy the Dbase professional version with the compiler and all. Only problem was when we went to Ashton-Tate to get it they told us we had to talk to Borland We talked to Borland and they said we had to talk to Ashton-Tate.

On a lark I called the FoxPro folks and they had a complete set of their latest greatest waiting on my desk the next morning. Read a little bit of documentation and I was compiling the Dbase code in FoxPro inside of about an hour.

I never touched DBase again after that..lol. Still use FoxPro in various flavors for different things.

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08-06-2016, 01:56 PM
sarettah see you later, I'm gone Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 14,055	I ended up working in FoxPro because of Ashton-Tate selling DBase to Borland. This was back in November '91 I think, right at the time that Ashton-Tate sold Dbase to Borland. We were workign with the cheap version of DBase, without any compiler, not even sure that it was a licensed copy actually. We had a bunch of DBase code all written up and tested in the IDE and we needed to compile it. So we went out to buy the Dbase professional version with the compiler and all. Only problem was when we went to Ashton-Tate to get it they told us we had to talk to Borland We talked to Borland and they said we had to talk to Ashton-Tate. On a lark I called the FoxPro folks and they had a complete set of their latest greatest waiting on my desk the next morning. Read a little bit of documentation and I was compiling the Dbase code in FoxPro inside of about an hour. I never touched DBase again after that..lol. Still use FoxPro in various flavors for different things. . __________________ All cookies cleared!