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The Basis of The History

• How it Started
  
  
  • Jeb Long, The Man That Started It All
  • JPLDIS: How Came The Idea, by Jeb Long
  
  
• People That Made The History
  
  
  • General Information
  • Who Began The History
  • Ashton-Tate People
  • The Original Fox Development Team in Toledo
  • Fox Software People
  • Microsoft FoxPro People
  • People That Contributed With Other xBase Tools
  • People That Helped FoxPro to Become a Legend
  
  

Facts That Made The History

• Articles
  
  
  • A Personal History of dBASE, by Jean-Pierre Martel
  • Fox Swallowed by Microsoft, by Mark H. Anbinder
  • Fragments of The History, by Lisa Slater Nicholls
  • FoxPro's Future, by Jordan Powell
  • FoxTalk Editorial - March 1992, by Lisa Slater Nicholls
  • Late Breaking News: Report from DB/EXPO, by Lisa Slater Nicholls
  • Microsoft's Best-kept Database Secret, by Les Pinter
  • Should VFP Be In VS Dot Net?, by Mike Feltman
  • The 17 Dreaded Questions for FoxPro 2.x, by Whil Hentzen
  • The 24 Dreaded Questions for VFP, by Whil Hentzen
  • The FoxPro Community, by Yair Alan Griver, Alan Schwartz and Lisa Slater Nicholls
  • The Product That Won't Die, by Tom Spitzer
  • The Story Behind The Patch, by Andrew Forber
  • Turning the Food Chain Around, by Hal Pawluk
  • Whither FoxPro, by Robert Green
  • Whither Our Fox?, by Lisa Slater Nicholls
  • Whither Our Fox - Part 2, by Whil Hentzen
  • Whither Our Fox - Part 3, by Whil Hentzen
  • Will Microsoft Market VFP? , by Mike Asherman
  
  
• The Fox at Fox Software
  
  
  • Ashton-Tate vs Fox Software
  • Delos M. Palmer vs Fox Research
  
  
• The Fox at Microsoft
  
  
  • An Open Letter to the FoxPro Community
  • Response to Negative Reports on Visual FoxPro
  • Microsoft Visual FoxPro Strategy Backgrounder
  • Choosing the Appropriate Database Development Tool
  • FoxPro: Moving Into the New Century
  
  
• Interviews
  
  
  • Porting FoxBASE to the Mac, by Michael Kei Stewart
  • Wayne Ratliff, by Susan Lammers
  
  
• General Information
  
  
  • Fragments of The History:  Part 1  Part 2  Part 3 
  • Rushmore Technology, The Heart of The Fox
  • Press Releases from Fox Software: FoxPro 2.0
  • The the first edition of a FoxPro newsletter
  • Fox Stories
  • A Program for Life, by Tom Rettig
  • Powered by Microsoft Visual FoxPro
  
  
• Links to Articles and Other Texts of Interest
  
  
  • Farewell, Tom Rettig
  • Zum Andenken an Tom Rettig (in German)
  
  

Information About The Fox

• FoxPro Timeline
  
  
  • General FoxPro Timeline
  • Timeline According to Dr David Fulton
  • Summary of Fox Releases
  
  
• The Faces of The Fox
  
  
  • Screen Shots by Fox Version
  • FoxBASE+
  • FoxPro DOS
  • FoxPro Mac
  • FoxPro Windows
  • Visual FoxPro Mac
  • Visual FoxPro Windows
  
  
• How The Fox was Packaged
  
  
  • Fox Software Boxes
  • Microsoft Boxes
  
  
• Books
  
  
  • Books by Fox Version
  • FoxBase
  • FoxPro DOS
  • FoxBase/FoxPro/Visual FoxPro for the Mac
  • FoxPro for Windows
  • Visual FoxPro
  
  

xBase Tools That Were Part of The History

• The xBase Software Family
  
  
  • Ashton-Tate and Borland dBASE
  • Nantucket and Computer Associates Clipper
  • Some Other Tools
  
  
• How xBase Software was Packaged
  
  
  • Ashton-Tate
  • Borland
  • Nantucket
  • Computer Associates

The FoxPro Community

• FoxPro Worldwide
  • North America
  • South America
  • Europe
  • Oceania
  • Personal Web Pages
  
  
• CompuServe - The Fox Forum
• CompuServe - Memories
• MSDN Online Community for Visual FoxPro

FoxPro Today

• What Is Visual FoxPro
  
  
• What People Say About FoxPro (If you have something to say, do it clicking here)
  
  

The Future of FoxPro

• What People Say About The Future of Visual FoxPro
  
  
  • The State and Future of Visual FoxPro, by Ken Levy
  • The Future of Visual FoxPro, by Steve Ballmer
  • Visual FoxPro 7.0 and Beyond, by John Hawkins