Fun times and all in an era without raid storage, though the likes of Novell Netware soon did well addressing that in the years that followed. I didn't do much

Fun times and all in an era without raid storage, though the likes of Novell Netware soon did well addressing that in the years that followed. I didn't do much DBase work in that time, but did do Dataease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataEase https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataEase (if you get an old copy hold down the CTRL key and type DEBUG and you will get a hidden debug mode, might also need to hold shift and do not recall if debug was upper or lower case but one or the other will work in the old DOS versions at least). Which was pretty powerful stuff and was used for bespoke construction projects - what would be the realm of ERP in many ways. But large projects like the construction of oil-rigs was not isolated and few large engineering projects would be using your DBase, Dataease and Paradox! as well as few that I do not recall at the moment. Was not long after that we saw SQL start to take some traction in usage and availability. Which was also around the time that the GUI war (however brief the GEM/Windows and then Windows/ OS/2 was) and saw many of those legacy databases fall upon those swords over the comming decade and early 90's release of Access sure did cat those who was left, combined with some aggressive office bundles and that included later their server system with backoffice - all priced together for the price of a competitions single package offering and that further hammered many of the competition that come the end of the 90's - many just hang on to stalwart legacy customers and for some, that help for a while.