ashton-tate – The Clever Shark https://clevershark.com Hi. My name is Tony Emond and I'm a blogger, technical writer, python, web and database developer based in Montreal.. Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:26:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://i0.wp.com/clevershark.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/cropped-avatar.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 ashton-tate – The Clever Shark https://clevershark.com 32 32 127613282 I can only hope it fails as fast. https://clevershark.com/2008/01/i-can-only-hope-it-fails-as-fast/ https://clevershark.com/2008/01/i-can-only-hope-it-fails-as-fast/#respond Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:26:59 +0000 http://clevershark.com/?p=1761 A former dBase architect sees ominous parallels between Ashton-Tate swan-song dBase IV and Windows Vista. Looks like Microsoft’s much-maligned OS could in fact be the beginning of the end for Redmond. Perhaps it’s no coincidence that Bill Gates has decided to end his day-to-day involvement in the company at this time.

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