Hello renald!
Friday September 13 1996 23:22, renald loignon wrote to David Powell:
 rl> When Microsoft bought out Fox Software and its product line, while
 rl> assimilating its development staff, I discussed FoxPro's future with
 rl> several colleagues and friends.  For a year or two, we remained
 rl> open-minded about the transaction, and its possible beneficial effects
 rl> on Foxpro *as* *we* *knew* *it*, i.e. multi-platform
 rl> (DOS/Unix/Win/Mac), open-ended, FAST, with modest hardware
 rl> requirements.  Now it seems that being embraced by Microsoft was, for
 rl> this Foxpro, akin to the kiss of death...
 rl> As far as I'm concerned, this means we'd better get started RIGHT NOW
 rl> on our transition to a development platform with some future (and, for
 rl> those so inclined, some platform-independance).
I would be happy to work on that.  But the major problem is that the ONLY 
product with ANY true cross platform support that I have found is foxpro. 
Everything else seems to consider (just like vfp) windows and mac to be cross 
platform enough.  Most stuff is windows only.
Cy
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