> At risk of continuing this thread that needs to die <g>. You mean along with VFP?
> Do you seriously think Microsoft had a 15-year plan to kill > FoxPro? Sure, that's what strategy people do. The thinking isn't foreign to me. 40 years ago, I was thinking 15 years down the road, and I'd expect a lot of people do it as well. Some are just better at it then others. For some reason I feel I should say that in the grand scheme of things, I've come to admire Bill Gates and the people who started MS. So I'm not starting out with a "I hate Bill Gates" attitude, it's quite the contrary. But I've also watched lawsuits against MS, and despite all the ups and downs, it did convince me that MS had no compunction using predatory practices. Now, from the vantage point of history, it seems very clear to me that the 'grand design' for acquiring FoxPro was not beneficial to us, as MS advertised it to be, but was instead a time bomb the company was placing into the guts of the enterprises who bought into the product development system that VFP is. > Maybe it was much shorter, but along the way the Fox > Team kept spoiling the plan by releasing new versions without > anyone noticing (yes, tongue firmly implanted in cheek). If > they really wanted it dead from the beginning they would have > let Computer Associates or Symantec buy it. These other > companies far exceed Microsoft in the ability to buy and kill. But you don't say what their strategy actually was, or are you going with they didn't have one? Bill > Rick _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
