FoxBASE+

Steve Dyer dyer at spdcc.COM
Thu Sep 15 23:45:51 AEST 1988


In article <334 at telly.UUCP> evan at telly.UUCP (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
]Someone from Fox Software told me by phone that SCO was in charge of
]determining priorities of all FoxBase Unix ports. If this is true, then
]SCO has shafted Fox Software out of much potential licensing revenue, in
]order to protect Xenix market share.
]...
]If Tim's schedule is true, then there is not even a port being developed
]in time for the Xenix/Unix merged 386 product.
]In the short term, the losers are Fox Software, and of course anyone who
]wants to use a dBASE clone on Microport, Interactive, etc.

Yap, yap, yap...Jeezuz, give me a break.  The whole point of the Xenix/UNIX
merged 386 product is that there won't have to be individual ports to both
flavors of 386 UNIX.  The current copy of Xenix FoxBase should run fine under
the merged port.

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Steve Dyer
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