Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!mcvax!botter!ark!kleef 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 Lines: 30 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