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by emmett 963 days ago
Everything old is new again (FoxPro says hi https://www.altap.cz/images/salamander/features/database-vie...)
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This is true except FoxPro really was more of a 'normal' relational database model. It just had this 'tabular' view for its Database Viewer client front-end. FoxPro was certainly not a 'spreadsheet' product in the sense that Excel is.
FoxPro was bundled with MS Office at one point, and it blew me away with how easy it was to make data-centric apps. It's the only thing I've experienced that comes close to a spreadsheet for enabling programming for those who would identify as non-programmers.
I think you're confusing it with Access, which is the one that was part of Office for a while.
You are right, Foxpro came with Visual Studio, not Office; I had misremembered.
Oracle says "hi" too! I remember seeing ads in Infoworld for a product called SQL*Calc. As far as I know it was fully vaporware, Oracle never even did anything past a photoshop (or more likely ms-paint) advertisement for it, but somebody on usenet may have used it:

https://www.orafaq.com/usenet/comp.databases.oracle.server/2...