FilePro

filePro is a proprietary DBMS and rapid application development system developed by Howard Wolowitz as The Electric File Clerk in 1978, licensed it to Tandy in 1979 who first published it in 1980, the same year that The Small Computer Company became a corporation.

Although there was a Profile for the I/III/IV, they were not made by Small Computer. filePro today started out on the Model II and first released by Tandy as Profile II . It is currently the property of fptech, Inc.

Data is stored in B-tree files, and all records are of fixed length. This is not a true relational database, because it does not satisfy Codd s 12 laws. It does, however, allow for rapid prototyping of curses (programming library)-like screens, and add-on products are available for ODBC interoperability, Common Gateway Interface-like functionality, and even a form of SQL peculiar to filePro.

Furthermore, there is a small, dedicated community of developers, and there is a mailing list based at http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/filepro-list and a voice chatroom available at http://www.valar.com/fp_room/fp_room_enter.htm