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- From: jcberger@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr (Jean-Claude Berger)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases
- Subject: Re: MICROSOFT ACCESS vs FOXPRO
- Date: 11 Dec 1992 23:10:37 +0100
- Organization: INSA Informatique, Lyon, France
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- References: <6515.2b25b1fe@hayes.com> <1992Dec9.102211.144@turtle.fisher.com> <1992Dec10.124112.1@skcla.monsanto.com>
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- In article <1992Dec10.124112.1@skcla.monsanto.com> jjfink@skcla.monsanto.com writes:
- >Anyway, I spoke with some Microsoft folks at the Database Expo in Chicago
- >yesterday (it's still going on today (Thursday)). FoxPro 2.5 for Win and Dos
- >are starting to ship, and unix/Mac are expected sometime in '93.
- >
- >Access will not be available for Mac for quite some time, nor will Visual
- >Basic, because both VB and AccessBasic were coded in Intel assembler :(
- >
-
- Does anybody knows what will be the Microsoft policy about
- Access vs. FoxPro (for Win). Is Access an end user product and Fox a
- developper oriented one ? Are they aimed at the same market ?
-
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