timk@egvideo.UUCP (Tim Kuehn) (01/27/89)
In article <488@telly.UUCP> evan@telly.UUCP (Evan Leibovitch) writes: >In article <1@dbase.UUCP> awd@dbase.UUCP (Alastair Dallas) writes: >> >>Not to be overtly commercial, but why not try dBASE IV? It is known to because I've tried dBase III + >> >>/alastair/ [clipped] >Let me be the first one on the net (there may be many) to express >to you my feelings on Ashton Tate's legal assault on Fox Software. I'll be the second (third...fourth...whatever...) > I >beileve this action is nothing less than odious, and tells the world >that dBASE can't beat Fox with a superior product, so they're trying [clip] >At this time, I and many applications developers I know have begun an >informal, unorganized boycott of Ashton Tate products, because money spent >on lawyers is not spent on R&D. etc.... I agree wholeheartedly. I and other collegues in my field have had encounters with the 'III+' series of dBase products. I don't know HOW many hours of downtime or just plain lost time I can attribute to problems with the dBase package. Slow index searches, index pointers that failed to move, or best of all - trashed index files from out of nowhere! When I got a copy of Foxbase/+ to run as a speed upgrade from III+ I was surprised (and quite pleasantly so) at how *well* it ran! Never mind that was a *lot* faster, or that it had these neat extensions III+ didn't - it just plain did what the packaging SAID it would do. And to me that's something worth waiting for. It'll take some convincing to get me to try A-T dBase stuff again. You can't litigate quality! +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Timothy D. Kuehn timk@egvideo | |TDK Consulting Services !watmath!egvideo!timk | |871 Victoria St. North, Suite 217A | |Kitchener, Ontario, Canada N2B 3S4 (519)-741-3623 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
wew@naucse.UUCP (Bill Wilson) (01/30/89)
>>At this time, I and many applications developers I know have begun an >>informal, unorganized boycott of Ashton Tate products, because money spent >>on lawyers is not spent on R&D. I also agree with this sentiment. If A-T would keep a superior product on the market they would not have to worry about the clones. I have been dis-enchanted with A-T products for a while, although I did start with dBASE II on a CP/M machine. A-T, please work with your users and developers instead of fighting us! -- Bill Wilson (Bitnet: ucc2wew@nauvm) Northern AZ Univ Flagstaff, AZ 86011 {These views are mine and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer}