Visual FoxPro is no longer at the edge of Microsoft’s saber, but the database management system still commands a loyal following and invokes fond memories of its heyday from the community that surrounded it.
In May, SD Times interviewed several members of the FoxPro community, with an eye to documenting its contributions to contemporary technology.
“My favorite thing about FoxPro is not technological; it is the community that FoxPro inspired. Many developers live in houses that Fox [Software] built,” quipped Jim Duffy, a Microsoft regional director and president of TakeNote Technologies, in reference to the original publishers of FoxPro, a company that Microsoft bought in 1992. (Regional directors are volunteers recognized by Microsoft for their technical abilities.)
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