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Reminds me of Bill Gates recent IAMA where he talked about how they were close but didn't make it to market with a similar product, e.g. he seemed to be saying

• gregjor 14y ago
  Pick-style databases were a dominant technology from around 1973 until relational databases (led by Oracle) marginalized them, more or less. Pick databases are still widely used and I run into legacy applications all the time, especially in publishing. There's a decent Wikipedia article on the Pick operating system if you're interested.