> I did not know they had fired everyone in 2002. Why did they do that?

because they stopped development of the product..

--
Steven Green - Myrtle Beach, South Carolina USA

Diamond Software Group
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Steven Green wrote:
>>I did not know they had fired everyone in 2002. Why did they do that?
>
>
> because they stopped development of the product..
>
> --
> Steven Green - Myrtle Beach, South Carolina USA
>
> Diamond Software Group
> http://www.diamondsg.com/main.htm
> Paradox Support & Sales
>
> Diamond Sports Gems
> http://www.diamondsg.com/gemsmain.htm
> Sports Memorabilia and Trading Cards
>
>
>
Why have they stopped development of the product? Paradox is an
excellent data base. Are they giving up the data base market to Microsoft?

Bob Speck

Dead, No.

Growing, also No.

There have been lots of discussions in the various groups about the
relative merits of Paradox and Access. Search and you will find them.

Frankly, Paradox continues to be viable (I know some of you think
otherwise, bear with me). It can run in every version of windows out
there. It can run on a mac in a windows vm via Parallels at least. It
can also do that in linux. There has been some discussion of its ability
to run in linux natively (well, inside wine or codeweaver's stuff). So
at minimum you can keep your investment in it rolling forward.

I certainly wouldn'encourage you to LEARN access if you don't already
know it (nor pdox for that matter). If you plan on learning something
new, look at CS level dbs and languages like php, delphi, vb etc. But if
you are in pdox, you are viable as long as it meets your needs and you
have a legit license for win that you can install in a VM or run on eing
equipment. There have also been some posts that it looks like it will
run in Win7 too but no one knows that for sure yet. So figure you at
least have to the end of vista support for native pdox, maybe longer.

Denn Santoro
President
Resource Development Associates
http://www.RDAWorldWide.Com
Offices in the United States and Germany
Providing solutions to health care, business, governments and
non-profits since 1982

Bob Speck wrote:
>
> Jim Hargan wrote:
>> On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:32:59 -0400, Steven Green wrote:
>>
>>
>>> paradox 11 is unchanged since suite 11..
>>
>>
>> What Steven said. I specifically asked Corel Tech Support about this, and
>> was told that X4 included the same version of Paradox as X3, WP12, and
>> WP11, which is Paradox 11. The tech guy said that Paradox 11 would
>> receive
>> a patch to make it Vista compatible, scheduled for release in the next
>> two
>> months.
>>
>> Corel has stated that there will be no more upgrades of Paradox -- just
>> maintenance releases, like the one they say will be available by the
>> end of
>> June.
>>
>> If you have a specific capability you want from Paradox, look into OCX
>> objects. Lots of threads on the forums hosted at www.thedbcommunity.com.
>>
>> --
>> Jim Hargan
>>
> Is Paradox dead? It looks like it is if there will be no further
> releases. I have used it for 20 years. Is Access superior to Paradox?
> Does Access have a programming language like Object-Pal?
>
> Bob Speck
>