- Borland Reflex
Borland Reflex is a flat-file
database management system forDOS . It was the first commercial PCdatabase to use the mouse and graphics mode, and drag-and-drop capability in the report formatting module. Reflex was originally developed by Analytica [Not to be confused with the business-modeling software packageAnalytica ] which was later bought byBorland .The engineering team of Analytica, managed by
Brad Silverberg and including Reflex co-founderAdam Bosworth became the core of Borland's engineering team in the U.S. Brad Silverberg was vice-president of engineering until he left in early 1990 to head up the Personal Systems division atMicrosoft . Adam Bosworth initiated and headed up theQuattro project until moving to Microsoft later in 1990 to take over the project which eventually became Access. Another Reflex developer, Ken Day, later moved toMacromedia where he worked onShockwave , among other projects.As a testament to properly written software, one can still run Reflex on any modern Windows-based PC. [cite web|url=http://www.rickmaybury.com/O2y/o2y03/150.htm|first=Rick|last=Maybury|title=Over2U|date=
7 October ,2003 |quote=It should be noted that under Windows 2000 or XP, the ansi.sys file may have to be added to the CONFIG.NT file in the system32 directory for the characters to display properly on screen. The line to be added is: device=%systemroot%system32ansi.sys]Gordon Bell , a senior researcher inMicrosoft 's Media Presence Research Group, includes a case study on Analytica in his book " [http://research.microsoft.com/users/GBell/High_Tech_Ventures/00000289.htm High-Tech Ventures: The Guide For Entrepreneurial Success] ".Notes
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