Talk:VP-Info

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Copyright violation[edit]

Unless the author of this page is Sid Bursten, this page appears to have been copied and pasted from [1]. Please either remove it, reword it, or explain why you did this.

I am Sid Bursten and I used some of the material I created for this Wikipedia article for the piece on the Foxpro history site.

I would like to bring this article into conformity. If there are any suggestions or questions, my email address is sid(AT)sid-bursten.com. Gray Matter 00:35, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cleanup help[edit]

I am still Sid Bursten. This is September 6/06 and I have still not received any clue about why this article is marked as out of conformity. Please provide suggestions to me at sid(AT)sid-bursten.com. Thank you. Gray Matter 05:33, 7 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I am David Clark the designer and creator of VP-Info. My partner Dr. Gratzer created the reference and tutorial manuals for this product. In 1987 alone, over 30,000 copies of this program were sold by Paperback Software all over the world. The product I created was much more than a report generator. It contained a programming language with hundreds of functions, an IDE, report/input generators and many advanced tools to manipulate data in tables. I am making a few corrections to this article that should make it reflect reality a little better than it did. I can be reached at clarkd@rccconsulting.com

I think this small article is important as VP-Info helped provide solutions for many small business, custom software installations when micro computers were still very small and unreliable. dBase, Foxpro, VP-Info and many other like products were very important to the early evolving useful application of micro computers used by small businesses.

I have no interest (financial or otherwise) in the product called Sharkbase that Mr Burstein obviously still has an interest in. My personal interest in this product ended in 1989 although many people, including myself, used this product for well over 15 years after 1990. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.70.113.182 (talk) 16:33, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Assessments[edit]

2020-06-04: I compared this article against others within the computing area relating to products of similar vintage, but higher categories. In the context of Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing I compared the article against Apple FileWare and Burroughs B1700. I propose to upgrade this article from Stub to C. In the context of Wikipedia:WikiProject Databases I compared the article against Avibase, SoyBase Database, HathiTrust, PhagesDB. Likewise I propose a change from Stub to C. I have no affiliation with the product or any of the people mentioned in the article. JamesYoungman (talk) 11:35, 4 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]