Fox Software

(company)

Developers of FoxBASE+ and FoxPRO. Fox Software merged with Microsoft around 1992.

Addresss: Perrysburg, OH, USA.

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Also, this database program can be written in other database languages such as Paradox (Borland) and Foxbase (Fox Software, Perrysburg, Ohio).

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The major contenders for my allegiance are Borland International's dbase W, lineal descendent of the product that invented the category, acquired in the purchase of Ashton-Tate in 1991; Microsoft's FoxPro 2, recently acquired from Fox Software; and WordTech's Arago DBXL and Arago Quicksilver.

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Fox Software informed me of a work-around technique which would avoid retyping all the non-transferable fields, but it is not easily accomplished and may not be practical given the number of records to be converted.

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Microsoft Corporation, the largest software firm in the world, more recently took title to Fox Software and its technically advanced FoxPro 2 line, notwithstanding the widely reported ongoing development of a Windows-based database package called Cirrus.

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On December 11, a federal judge threw out Ashton-Tate's suit against Fox Software and trashed the company's dbase copyrights, accusing Tate of "repeatedly" and "knowingly" concealing that the dbase product line was derived from a mainframe language called JPLDIS.

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When Microsoft Corporation announced its intent to purchased Fox Software, the stage was set for yet another competitive donnybrook between two of the giants of PC software development.