(formerly Apple Computer Inc) would publish the software but Apple canceled the plan, reportedly due to pressure from other potential database publishers who claimed that if Apple had their own 'brand' database, third party products would be disadvantaged in the marketplace. Following negotiations with Ribardiere it was planned that Apple Inc.

Silver Surfer, as it was known during early development, was developed by Laurent Ribardière in 1984. The product is localized in more than a dozen languages. Today, 4D is published by the French company 4D SAS and has a sales, distribution and support presence in most major markets, with the United States, the United Kingdom, and France being the primary markets. There are also over 100 third-party plugins, free and commercial.ĤD can also be used as a web server, to run compiled database applications. Some of the plug-ins created by 4D include 4D Write (a word processor), 4D View (somewhat like a spreadsheet, but with extra functionality) and 4D Internet Commands (which allowed for the addition of Internet-related functionality to a database). The 4D product line has since expanded to an SQL back-end, integrated compiler, integration of PHP, and several productivity plug-ins and interfaces.

4D was created in 1984 and had a slightly delayed public release for Macintosh in 1987 with its own programming language. RDBMS Web Server Application Server SQL Server Database Server LanguageĤD ( 4th Dimension, or Silver Surfer, as it was known during early development) is a relational database management system and IDE developed by Laurent Ribardière.

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