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- From: vcurley@zeus.calpoly.edu (Vince Curley)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: MS ACCESS vs PARADOX/Win
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.163717.104280@zeus.calpoly.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 16:37:17 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.192808.12128@PacBell.COM> <168A180F1.JC924@uacsc2.albany.edu> <1992Nov16.170134.304@v7.vitro.com>
- Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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- In article <1992Nov16.170134.304@v7.vitro.com> mmangieri@vitro.com (Mikey) writes:
- >In article <168A180F1.JC924@uacsc2.albany.edu> JC924@uacsc2.albany.edu writes:
- >>In article <1992Nov13.192808.12128@PacBell.COM>
- >>jcwasik@srv.PacBell.COM (Joe Wasik) writes:
- >>
- >>>So now, what to do... How will Access compare to Paradox/Win? What does
- >>>the Usenet community think aboout this?
- >>>
- >>And how does Access relate to FoxPro for Windows, which I had assumed was
- >>going to be MS's database for Windows?
- >>
- >
- >Possibly Access _is_ FoxPro for Windows! If you look at the flyer closely, it
- >looks alot like FoxPro to me :)
-
- Definately not. Fox was working on FoxPro for Windows long before the
- merger and Microsoft was working on Access LONG before just about anything
- happened. Let's remember that Access has taken 6 years. FoxPro is also
- XBase oriented whereas Access users enjoy Basic, which everyone already
- knows.
-
-
- --
- Vince "Windows, Windows, Windows" Curley
- vcurley@demeter.calpoly.edu CIS:71055,3423
-