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Last week, I blogged that Fox, as a product offering from Microsoft, would disappear after Sedna. But, does that mean that Fox is gone forever? I think not (and no, this does not contradict what I said last week).

For sometime, Ken Levy and other members of the Fox team have been talking about how they have been showing off Fox technology to other teams in Redmond, particularly the VB team. No surprise there, as YAG was a member of the VB team before moving over to Fox. But it was an article yesterday on Yahoo! that got me thinking about this in a different way. The article, Microsoft to Serve Up SQL Server 2005 Preview, includes this paragraph (emphasis my own):

Sources said high-level Microsoft architects are focusing on how "Orcas," the follow-on version of Visual Studio, will more easily and efficiently handle data via future versions of both Visual Basic and Visual C#. In fact, Anders Hejlsberg, a top Microsoft software architect, is working on Visual C# 3.0 and has produced compiler technology that accelerates data integration. The Visual Basic team is working to deliver similar functionality, based on Microsoft's FoxPro technology base, sources said.

So, Fox, while I believe won't be available as a separate product, will live on. It will be reincarnated as something different -- new data manipulation and access technologies in Orcas.

Update: Added link to Yahoo! story