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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (32395)	11/6/1999 6:53:00 PM
From: Tom C	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

MS bought fox-pro for the database engine. The jet engine was incorporated into access (which by the way, last I heard, is being phased out in favor of the single user version of SQL Server). They have updated fox pro, there just aren't that many developers using it. Just like there aren't many DBase programmers these days. MS did not have a source code control system so they bought SourceSafe and integrated it into their development environments. You can say it is poor or poorly documented but they didn't buy it to destroy it. They may have mismanaged it but there's no crime in that. Tom