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Citing greater speed, ease of use and support for Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 95, some early users last week declared Visual dBase 5.5 from Borland International, Inc. a solid hit.
Improvements in Version 5.5 include 25 database development tools for creating custom applications with the look and feel of commercial products, the desktop developers said.
The Xbase development product's ease of use stems in part from its use of visual inheritance, an object-oriented functionality that lets developers visually create libraries of reusable custom forms and controls.
Microsoft's Visual Basic 3.0 is the biggest competitor to Visual dBase 5.5, but the latter has more functionality and tools, said William Bautista, a...