DataPerfect - a dream engine

Dear friends,

This is a blog I have been meaning to start for a while - and although I hadn't written anything here since I set it up a couple of months ago, there has been much to report and I have compiled some very extensive logs of the development of some of the key databases I have been developing with DataPerfect.

I was very fortunate to have discovered DataPerfect - arguably the most brilliant database in existence, and one that has not just withstood the test of time, but has continued to grow with small yet significant enhancements - when it was released twenty years ago as a companion to the still magnificent WordPerfect for DOS and a key element in WordPerfect Office

DataPerfect was written by Lew Bastian who had written some of the first disk-caching patents while working for IBM and who is the older brother of WordPerfect author and founder Bruce Bastian. Lew Bastian continues to support DataPerfect and to play a vital role in the DataPerfect Users Discussion Group.

The most recent developments in DataPerfect - which I have not yet begun to make use of - can not truly be called small, as it is now possible for DataPerfect databases to run on a web server and to generate web pages on the fly.

DataPerfect - together with a set of related utility programs including WordPerfect Office - is available as a free download from the DataPerfect Users Discussion Group; the rights to use DataPerfect were released by Novell when it acquired the WordPerfect Corporation.