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Superbase is an end-user desktop database program that started on the Commodore 64 and was ported from that to various operating systems over the course of more than 20 years. It also has generally included a programming language to automate database-oriented tasks, and with later versions included WYSIWYG form and report designers as well as more sophisticated programming capabilities. ==History== It was originally created in 1983 by Precision Software for the Commodore 64 and 128 and later the Amiga and Atari ST. In 1989, it was the first database management system to run on a Windows computer. Precision Software, a UK-based company, was the original creator of the product Superbase. Superbase was and still is used by a large number of people on various platforms. It was often used only as an end-user database but a very large number of applications were built throughout industry, government, and academia and these were often of significant complexity. Some of these applications continue in use to the current day, mostly in small businesses. The initial versions were text mode only, but with the release of the Amiga version, Superbase became the first product to use the now common VCR control panel for browsing through records. It also supported a number of different media formats, including images, sounds, and video. Superbase was often referred to as the ''multimedia'' database in early years, when such features were uncommon. The Amiga version also featured an internal language and the capability to generate front end "masks" for queries and reports, years before Microsoft Access. This version was a huge success and that resulted in a version being created for a number of platforms using the same approach. Eventually a Microsoft Windows version was released and a couple of years later the company was sold by its founders to Software Publishing Corporation. SPC sold off the non-Windows versions of the product and after releasing version 2 and in the late alpha stages of version 3, sold the product to a company called Computer Concepts Corporation. This relatively unknown company created a subsidiary called Superbase, Inc. and after finishing off the late stage alpha of version 3 and launching it as Superbase 95, eventually appeared to have lost interest in the product, at which point it was bought by a small group of former customers and brought back to the UK. This company, Superbase Developers plc, continued to extend and support the product through Superbase Classic. A new, next-generation rewrite of the product initially called Superbase Next Generation (SBNG) which included a new object oriented programming language called SIMPOL was begun in 1999-2000. It had primarily been an alpha product; although it was billed as a beta release in 2005 with promises that a true release would be around the corner. In 2006, SIMPOL was sold to RealBasics Ltd which was later renamed Simpol Ltd (www.simpol.com). In April 2009 this company launched SIMPOL Professional, which is the next generation product, as a cross-platform language and database tool set. In February 2009, it was announced that Superbase Developers plc was in liquidation. In March 2010 Papatuo Holdings Ltd. purchased the Superbase family of products from the official receivers of Superbase Developers plc.() In 2015, Papatuo Holdings, the company that purchased the Superbase intellectual property when Superbase Developers plc was liquidated has also purchased the SIMPOL intellectual property upon the liquidation of Simpol Limited. The next version of SIMPOL after v1.83 will be Superbase NG 2.0. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Superbase (database)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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