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In 1983 Robert Carr and Marty Mazner founded Forefront Corporation to develop Framework. In July of that year, they approached Ashton-Tate to provide the Venture Capital and to later market the product. Together with a team of six other individuals, Carr and company released the original Framework. The product proved successful enough that in 1985 , Ashton-Tate bought Forefront, a year sooner than planned. Ashton-Tate continued to enhance the product by producing Framework II, '''Framework III''', and finally '''Framework IV''' in 1989 . Beginning with Framework III, the company also produced '''Framework III Runtime''' and '''Framework III Developer's Toolkit'''. These products allowed application developers to create business applications using the internal FRED programming language, and to hide the User Interface from the end-users. Ashton-Tate however did not aggressively market Framework compared to its mainstream dBase product, and it failed to gain more than a fraction of the market share needed to become a workplace standard. As a result Lotus 123 was able to successfully capture both of Ashton-Tate's product niches and in 1991 Borland bought Ashton-Tate and later sold Framework to Selections & Functions , Inc, who is still actively maintaining it. Present versions include HTML generation and an Object Oriented interactive Rapid Application Development environment. It also includes a Speech Recognition capability for visually impaired and Blind users. While it remains a DOS program, Framework also works on most versions of Windows . ''Programmers at Work'' (ISBN 0914845713) credits Robert Carr as the designer and principal developer of Framework. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS ''For guidelines on primary and secondary education in Massachusetts, see Massachusetts Frameworks .'' Test Link |
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