Foxtales: Behind the Scenes at Fox Software

Once I began this extraordinary book, I could not put it down. It's a page turner with a story that will appeal to all readers. I worked at Fox Software with Kerry for over 4 years. This story of Kerry's experience at Fox Software is a wonderful reminder that how you get to the top is more important than how high you get. There have been many stories of what the inside of the high-tech business looks like from the most famous and successful business leaders. Most of these stories are attempts to write history and promote themselves. This story is about a hard working and honest guy who wants to work hard and make something of himself by joining a small software company. After reading this book you can tell that Kerry wrote this book to just share his experience. He is not trying to promote himself, and by doing so he tells a story that so many people can relate to, and he records for all of us a fascinating story of a small software company at a time when the industry was growing exponentially.This story has a happy ending, despite all of the obstacles presented in the book, Kerry and others continued to work hard and were rewarded years later at Microsoft. I am looking forward to more great books from Kerry.

Recently, I read Mr. Nietz's book while on vacation and found it to be very interesting and hard to put down. Within a couple of days I was finished with the book. This book is for all audiences and you don't need a degree in computers to enjoy it. I highly recommend this book and I look forward to reading other books by Kerry in the future.

Kerry has definitely a gift for writing. He describes in such a vivid way what happened those years that it is impossible to put the book down once you started reading it. You will get to not only to know about his key role in the development of the Fox product through the years but how the software industry worked until 10 years ago when still there where small companies creating kicking-butt software.

This is a easy read from beginning to end, and hard to stop once you've started. A well-written saga of an underdog in the software world that ended up being a department in the biggest. I highly recommend the book. And thanks to the author for writing it.

I really enjoyed reading this story and found it difficult to put the book down to get back to work. Kerry has a humorous twist on a stress-filled journey of working for a small company in the midwest that put together one of the greatest success stories in the industry. It brought back some enjoyable memories that I had long forgotten. This book gives you some excellent insight to how this software development tool was developed, and how amazing this product is despite the challenges this company and the developers faced. This is an easy read and might even provide you with some ideas to improve how you approach the people side of our business. Thanks for sharing your story Kerry.