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- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!andrews
- From: andrews@microsoft.com (Andrew Sigal)
- Subject: Re: MICROSOFT ACCESS vs FOXPRO
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.003422.29828@microsoft.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 00:34:22 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <thomasd.30.724520094@tps.COM> <1992Dec16.224755.878@netcom.com> <BzFqyC.6LC@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
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- In article <BzFqyC.6LC@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> tcheng@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Tony C. Cheng) writes:
- >In <1992Dec16.224755.878@netcom.com> messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk) writes:
- >
- >>thomasd@tps.COM (Thomas W. Day) writes:
- >
- >>>No they're not. You can get a position paper from Microsoft's Customer
- >>>Service office. It's 3 pages long and defines the proposed market for both
- >>>programs. Your assumption about the targeted markets is pretty close to
- >>>what Microsoft claims: Access - end user, Foxpro 2.5 - developer.
- >
- >>But that collides slightly with the fact that Microsoft is releasing
- >>a distribution kit for Access at the end of January.
- >
- > I don't know where you got this info. from. When I
- > asked MS reps. in a MS Access seminar at Indy about its
- > run-time distribution, they said MS will have Developer's
- > Distribution Kit for FoxPro in Feb. (BTW, they were
- > demonstrating FoxPro at the same time), those two guys
- > didn't know whether MS has plans for an Access distribution
- > kit.
-
- The Microsoft Access Distribution Kit will allow developers to write MS Access
- applications and distribute them royalty-free. It will be available
- during the first half of 1993.
-
- Microsoft Access is targeted to end users, power users, and developers
- who want a database that provides superior access to data and
- outstanding graphical tools for accessing and managing information. [Gosh,
- I sound like a marketing guy. I'm not, really!] It is not just for end users!
- With Microsoft Access version 1.0, distributing applications requires
- that the user of the application purchase a copy of Access. The ADK
- will solve this problem.
-
- Andrew
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