Doug Barney at RedmondMag wrote an article praising Visual FoxPro. and mentioning the release of the February CTP of Sedna.
I spent years covering databases for InfoWorld and Computerworld, and perhaps the liveliest market of all was FoxPro. Originally a dBase clone, it grew to outshine the Ashton-Tate tool and was eventually bought by Microsoft.
I even spent a week in Orlando at a FoxPro user group, and boy, those folks were hardcore. Some looked like they hadn't left their keyboard in a decade!Microsoft tried to kill off FoxPro in favor of both Access and SQL Server, but users never let 'em.
So what is Microsoft to do? Build a brand-new version that's .NET 2.0-compliant and works with Visual Studio. With this kind of tweaking, I'd give FoxPro another 10 years, at least!
It's good to see at least some coverage in the media.
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