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It's weird that in the 80s and 90s, "database" was a standard and integral part of pretty much every office suite from every software company. Other than Acces
by LeoPanthera 4y ago
It's weird that in the 80s and 90s, "database" was a standard and integral part of pretty much every office suite from every software company.
Other than Access, that seemed to change overnight, and now it barely is a thing you can do with your computer at all, and even Access is aimed exclusively at enterprise usage.
I wonder why. I often think that a desktop GUI database app would be very useful, but with the possible exception of the aforementioned LibreOffice Base, this barely exists at all.
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoSpreadsheets became more capable (larger screens, better formatting options) so now the target audience for a small scale database is just using that instead.
- jojobas 4y agoMain use cases for Access and the like seemed to be roll-your-own mini accounting/inventory control applications. Good riddance.
- eternityforest 4y agoI can't think of any real uses for it, unless they can make it sync between devices, in a way that is better than just using a cloud DB. The idea of data that lives on one local machine is so completely alien to the modern view of software(At least to me) that I'd have to actively spend time looking for use cases. A database that was as easy to use as SyncThing would be revolutionary though. So many spreadsheets could be replaced.