MicroRIM's R:Base had modest success, pre client/server. It was always a true RDBMS. I had used R:Base for "real work" and dBase (and kin) for flatfile type stu

MicroRIM's R:Base had modest success, pre client/server. It was always a true RDBMS. I had used R:Base for "real work" and dBase (and kin) for flatfile type stuff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R:Base https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R:Base I've always wondered how Oracle swept the industry, and R:Base did not. Probably multiple factors. Like Oracle's initial customers had big iron and those enterprise contracts are big money. Whereas R:Base was part of the personal computer revolution and so probably wasn't even considered. In my mind, MS Access was the market fit successor. IIRC, Access was the first "workgroup" (network file sharing vs true client/server) RDBMS to make the jump to GUI. A bit like Excel displaced Lotus 1-2-3. Too bad. Much as I came to love Access, I also loved R:Base.