"Smart Office Software" separated the DBMS, View, and the process using
modular design linked into a relocatable executable. The DBMS was a dBase data
structure written in C. The application process was written in COBOL and the
View was C and COBOL. The design was entered into a rapid development tool that
wrote COBOL. The development environment was REXX and Kedit that allowed
modification of anything through their interplay with the OS and
personality/drive tables.
The competition was writing dBase applications compiled with Foxpro.
Smart Office Software executed about ten times
faster and was developed in about one twentieth of the time required by the
competition. The development process was iterative to allow ownership by the
client.
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