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From: kleef@cs.vu.nl (Patrick van Kleef)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What ever happened to DBase Mac?
Message-ID: <1061@ark.cs.vu.nl>
Date: Fri, 17-Jul-87 20:31:07 EDT
Article-I.D.: ark.1061
Posted: Fri Jul 17 20:31:07 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 19:23:06 EDT
References: <3475@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>
Reply-To: kleef@cs.vu.nl (Patrick van Kleef)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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Keywords: Ashton-Tate database 4th-Dimension Acius
Summary: Rumour has it....

In article <3475@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> graifer@net1.UUCP (Dan Graifer) writes:
>
>Late last summer I saw a demo at SDMUG by someone from Ashton-Tate of DBase
>Mac.  At that time, they were predicting a January '87 release.  What ever
>happened to this product?
>                              Dan Graifer
>

THESE ARE NOT FACTS FERSURE!
From interviews I had with former Apple employees (you mentioned
4th Dimension... guess what former employees) I gathered that the
sample of dBase Mac was rejected by Apple (the company was said to have
refused registration of the product) because of the "numerous bugs, the
flawy design and the lousy user-interface".

It could very well be that Ashton-Tate (that put so much pressure on
Apple to stop the release _by Apple_ of 4th Dimension after looking
at some pre-release versions of the program) figures it doesn't stand
a chance with dBase Mac compared to 4th Dimension. This program,
from what I saw of it, looks like the ideal dbms-program for the
Mac.

Just like WordPerfect Company delayed the release of WordPerfect Mac
after seeing the possibilities of MS-Word 3.0, Ashton-Tate might
have decided to improve the product instead of giving birth to a dead
child.

					Paul Molenaar

"Just checking the walls" - Basil Fawlty