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To save time and bandwidth, can I just point out in one place that we are, of course, aware of Adabas, IMS, IDMS, Pick, Mumps, Nomad, Teradata, UniVerse, Foxpro and many other very fine vintage and not-so-vintage database technologies. Some of us were around when they appeared, some of us have actually used some of them - and we …

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  1. David Haig

    Forgotten dBase

    What about the database that started it all in the PC world, Ashton Tate's dBase III? Through all it's different disguises - dBase IV, Clipper, FoxPro, etc - it ran the first mission critical business applications for the small, medium and even some large companies, many of which are still running a decade or so on.

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  2. David Norfolk

    Aston Tate

    dBase? Well, I did mention FoxPro...

    I have an issue with dBase, since, iirc, it was the first database to seriously attempt to devalue the term "relational database"....

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