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- From: james@library.nrl.navy.mil (James King)
- Subject: Re: MICROSOFT ACCESS vs FOXPRO
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- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 12:57:13 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec12.004240.23761@netcom.com> messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk) writes:
- >From: messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk)
- >Subject: Re: MICROSOFT ACCESS vs FOXPRO
- >Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 00:42:40 GMT
- >jcberger@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr (Jean-Claude Berger) writes:
- >
- >>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 ?
- >
- >I purchased Access solely based on the information from Miscrosoft that
- >they will have a distribution kit for it some time early next year, end
- >of January, early February.
- >
- >t.
-
- One of the big differences between FoxPro and Access is that FoxPro uses the
- XBase language for programming and Access uses TrueBASIC. I would say
- the other big difference is that FoxPro is cross-platform and has the
- Rushmore query engine, whereas Access does not, yet.
-
- R. James King
- Naval Research Lab
- Microsoft Support Coordinator
-