Re: dBase Inc newserver down ...

"AutoTraker Inc." <dbase@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> > This leaves Alan, two C++ programmers, and an office person or two.
> > Including Duke with whom I've never had much faith (guess anything
goes
in
> > the usenet).
>
> I would think Duke is more expendable than Ken and Bowen.

Only under the assumption that the company and it's product offering will
continue with little change.  I suspect that if the company survives
beyond
the summer, it will be heading in a direction that's very different from
the
last year.

> But then
> again, I don't write the paychecks. Maybe they needed to cut expenses.
>
> > The new President (Larry Foster) came onboard about two weeks ago.  No
doubt
> > the workforce reduction was his doing.
>
> No notice, no warning. Not very business like.

As I understand it, they are not even paying all the phone bills of those
who worked from their homes and used dedicated lines for dBASE work.

> Me thinks the new President isn't going to be very popular.

Except to the investors, whose bidding he does.

> I hope this doesn't mean dBASE Inc. is history.

Perhaps you mean dBASE Plus?