Enable Software, Inc. was a privately held
software development
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company located in
Ballston Lake, New York. Enable was founded in 1984 by Ron Quake and Bob Hamilton.
The company's flagship product, called ''Enable'' was an integrated
office suite for
IBM PC compatibles. The suite included a
word processor, a 3D
spreadsheet, a
relational database
A relational database is a (most commonly digital) database based on the relational model of data, as proposed by E. F. Codd in 1970. A system used to maintain relational databases is a relational database management system (RDBMS). Many relatio ...
, and integrated communications. In 1992 ''Enable Office'' added
electronic mail, and
calendaring software. At that time the company estimated it had more than one million users of its products. Enable 4.5 was released in April, 1992, with support for
OS/2 2.0. In 1993 it introduced ''JetForm for Enable'', "a mail-enabled forms designer for
Microsoft Windows
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."
Another Product of Enable, ''PowerLine'', was a multi-protocol terminal client for Windows similar to
Hyperterminal
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History
It was the first software product from Hilg ...
released in 1993.
Enable ceased operations in 1997. At that time there were an estimated 190,000 active users of Enable products.
References
External links
Review of Enable O/A 4.0
Defunct software companies of the United States
Software companies based in New York (state)
Software companies established in 1984
1984 establishments in New York (state)
Defunct companies based in New York (state)
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