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- From: lindsey@tincup.enet.dec.com (Randy Lindsey)
- Subject: Re: MICROSOFT ACCESS vs FOXPRO
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.220954.22700@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 22:07:35 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec12.004240.23761@netcom.com>, messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk) writes...
- >jcberger@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr (Jean-Claude Berger) writes:
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- >>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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- Remember that Microsoft just recently purchased Fox, so Access was well
- underway in development by that time. I expect they're still a little
- confused about the relative positioning of the products.
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- I would certainly *hope* they'll be merging them somewhat, such as supporting
- the same file structures etc.
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- Randy Lindsey
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