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296-Software has its roots in Software development.
296 Software was founded in 1984 after 5 years of application development on
computers like the Commodore PET with just 32 kb of memory.
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With the introduction of the IBM PC and
With the introduction of the IBM PC and programs like dBase, Quickbasic, and Turbo C
the first global database driven applications where developed.
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FACE, the Financial ACcountancy Equipment was a successful bookkeeping
program which used windowing long before Microsoft Windows was available.
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With the introduction of windows 3.0, 296-Software became a
Microsoft Windows oriented development company.
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As its database platform, 296-Software use MS-Access
for client applications and SQL-Server for business applications.
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Ibase is a Helpdesk application which uses MS-Access at its front end and SQL-Server at its backend.
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Towards the end 1995, when the Internet became more accessible, 296-Software decided to focus exclusively on internet development.
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296-Software adopted the Microsoft IIS Internet server as its standard Web server
and ASP as the server programming language.
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SQL-Server database is our first choice although we sometimes work with MS-Access and Oracle.
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2001 at the peek of the Dot.Com hype, 296-Software started the development of LCM-Builder.
We identified a clear need for an easy development tool to build real Web enabled applications
that were Language independent.
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LCM-Builder became an easy development tool .
After a re-design, the current version has become a complete web form generator.
Language independent development is still an important feature of the program,
but this has been considerably broadened to include the ability to generate
web enabled forms easily, with full Insert, Update, Delete and navigation
facilities through a database.
