FoxTales: Behind the Scenes at Fox Software [NOOK Book]

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Much has been written about the battles that rage between software companies over market share. FoxTales is the story of one such battle, told from the perspective of a foot soldier. My perspective.

When I started with Fox Software, it was a company of barely thirty people. It shared space in a small bank building on the edge of Ohio’s farm country. It was a quaint, family ...
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FoxTales: Behind the Scenes at Fox Software

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Overview

Much has been written about the battles that rage between software companies over market share. FoxTales is the story of one such battle, told from the perspective of a foot soldier. My perspective.

When I started with Fox Software, it was a company of barely thirty people. It shared space in a small bank building on the edge of Ohio’s farm country. It was a quaint, family run business, and its product, FoxBASE+, was a niche player.

The next four years brought many surprises: lawsuits, buyouts, off-the-wall management, and even a flying book or two. Things no college course could prepare you for.

And to think, I could’ve been a farmer.

** This tenth anniversary version contains a foreword by Microsoft Software Engineer & former Fox developer David Heindel, a new note from the author, and a selection of Fox Software "souvenirs" (maps, memos, etc.) **
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Product Details

  • BN ID: 2940013079434
  • Publisher: Kerry Nietz
  • Publication date: 6/1/2013
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Sales rank: 1296536
  • File size: 3 MB

Meet the Author

Kerry Nietz is a refugee of the software industry. He spent more than a decade of his life flipping bits—first as one of the principal developers of the database product FoxPro for the now mythical Fox Software, and then as one of Bill Gates’s minions at Microsoft. He is a husband, a father, a technophile, and a movie buff.
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  • Posted Thu Sep 29 00:00:00 EDT 2011

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    Wow!! Kerry Nietz has surprised me again! In his later works (The Dark Trench Saga) he blew my mind with great sci-fi material, and now he has done so with his knowledge of software. Most of the time, I didn't know what he was describing at all, but what was necessary, the difficulty or necessity of it, came clear. Nietz rendition of Dave Fulton was quite vivid, and he skillfully conveyed the characteristics of each of the mentioned employees. He wrote this book from the perspective of the "college grad," always showing someone else's work or product to be superior, and for this I admire him.

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