![]() I'm not sure exactly what happened to dBASE after the astounding success of dBASE III, but, according to Wikipedia, the decline started with "the disastrous introduction of dBase IV, whose stability was so poor many users were forced to try other solutions. The new dBASE guardian, dBase LLC, claims it's still in use by "millions of software developers." The company was formed last year with the help of some people who formerly worked at dataBased Intelligence Inc., "the legal heir" to dBASE. WordPerfect, of course, is still around under the stewardship of Corel Corp., but I hadn't heard anything about dBASE for quite a while. ![]() floppies-one for the program, one for the data?), this new one runs on Windows 8 (yes, even the 64-bit version). dbf files, dBASE PLUS 8 has been released.Īnd, while the original Ashton-Tate version was developed for the CP/M operating system (remember those dual 5-1/4 in. Oops, my mind was momentarily transported back into the mid '80s.Īmazingly, though, one of those pioneering software products was just updated as of yesterday. Ok, that report is due soon, so I'm going to fire up dBASE to run some reports, export the data into Lotus 1-2-3 and summarize everything with WordPerfect-while listening to Wham! and Foreigner, of course.
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