"I've had the privilege of working in Tech Support for dBASE III Plus and navigating the challenges of dBASE IV during my time at Ashton-Tate's Argentina Subsidiary. It was an experience I truly enjoyed. Thank you for this article; it brought back nice memories"
Thank you for the compliment, I'm so glad you enjoyed it! I had an enormous amount of fun researching and writing this, dBase truly was a seminal product and it's neat that it's still around today.
Thanks so much for this. I was a programmer while all of these events unfolded. I was a Clipper developer for a good number of years. That is a rabbit hole in and of itself. As a side note, I used Desqview as part of my development environment, another rabbit hole.
One of my former customers was a victim of Ashton-Tate's lawyers. They forced them to buy extra licenses for each computer they had, whether or not dBase IV or it's run-time was installed or not.
"I've had the privilege of working in Tech Support for dBASE III Plus and navigating the challenges of dBASE IV during my time at Ashton-Tate's Argentina Subsidiary. It was an experience I truly enjoyed. Thank you for this article; it brought back nice memories"
Thank you for the compliment, I'm so glad you enjoyed it! I had an enormous amount of fun researching and writing this, dBase truly was a seminal product and it's neat that it's still around today.
Thanks so much for this. I was a programmer while all of these events unfolded. I was a Clipper developer for a good number of years. That is a rabbit hole in and of itself. As a side note, I used Desqview as part of my development environment, another rabbit hole.
Thanks Again for the trip down memory lane!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I blogged about the latest dBase BDE issues.
https://delphinightmares.substack.com/p/dbase-2019-optimized-edition-achilles
One of my former customers was a victim of Ashton-Tate's lawyers. They forced them to buy extra licenses for each computer they had, whether or not dBase IV or it's run-time was installed or not.