DBase debased: Database titan fades to black after 47 years
Blog post mourning decline appears to have helped knock what was left of the veteran app's online presence offline
It looks like a popular blog post about the decline and fall of dBasehas knocked the long-moribund database's website offline. Sictransit gloria mundi?
We were rather entertained by a recent blog post on "DelphiNightmares" mourning the passing of the online store for the dBasewebsite: dBase:1979-2026. When the post went up, the online shop atstore.dbase.com was still online, but since the post was shared on HackerNews yesterday, even that has gone. One could say that after 47years, dBase has finally been debased.
It's an interesting telling of the decline and fall of what was oncean industry titan, and for us, the disappearance of the site itself oncethe blog post went up is just the cherry on top.
Indirectly, what turned into dBase started out as a tool called JPLDIS, writtenfor...
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