FoxPro Dead
FoxPro
KindProgramming language
Appeared1989
Ended2015
StatusDead
CreatorFox Software / Microsoft
FamilyxBase
Also known asVisual FoxPro
Sourceen.wikipedia.org ↗
The fastest xBase — Microsoft bought it, fused it with a GUI builder, then retired it in 2015; holdout shops still run it.
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Descended from dBase
Fox Software's FoxPro (1989) — the fast dBASE — out-queried Ashton-Tate with Rushmore technology and made desktop databases feel instant.\n\nMicrosoft bought it in 1992; Visual FoxPro ran until 2007 — the last great xBase.