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DBFree builds and runs database web applications using an Xbase interpreter. It supports DBF and ODBC, offering a freeware solution for developers.

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  • Pros

    • Supports DBF and ODBC data sources.
    • Integrates Xbase language within HTML/Javascript.
    • Simple installation, operation, and maintenance.
    • Freeware for personal and commercial use.
    • Empowers developers with full control.

  • Cons

    • Limited to Xbase programming language.
    • May require learning new syntax for web development.
    • Not suitable for complex enterprise-level applications.
    • Documentation or community support might be limited.
    • Relies on older Xbase language paradigm.
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GENERAL
Release
Latest update
Version
2.1
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Platform
Windows
Operating System
  • Windows 7
  • Windows XP
  • Windows 10
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 2003
  • Windows NT
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows Server
Additional Requirements
Microsoft Windows with 128MB RAM, internet connection, 55MB Hard DIsk space, administrator rights
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Developer’s Description

By MAXSIS
Provide xBase interpreter for web applications with DBF and ODBC support.
About DBFreeDBFree is a software package expressly designed to build and run database web applications.DBFree can be used freely for both personal and commercial useAppropriate uses for DBFree:- Run your own webserver from home or office through a cheap consumer-level ADSL connection.- Build a portal for your own firm or for a small company you are employed in.- Feed a centralized database from tablet or cell-phones capable of wap or internet connections.- Collect data (like orders, inventory,support request,etc) from remote offices of your company .- Give web automation to your office by re-using existing equipments.- Illustrate the basics of procedural programmings in schoolsdo whatever your imagination and programming skills make you bring to mind...DBFree is built around the powerful MaxScript Interpreter that offers an Xbase, Clipper-like, programming language rich of features commands and functions for any and all web application purposes.DBFree is completely freeware: our goal is to keep alive the art of programming and saving the beatiful Xbase language from oblivion.DBFree is aimed to programmers (apprentices or experienced), to corporate power users or part-time developers, and in general to anyone willing to learn programming and building database driven applications for the web without get involved into complex database developing systems and bloated APIs of today.DBFree primary goal is to keep alive the art of programming and saving the beautiful Xbase language from oblivion: to do so we managed to make DBFree as simple as possible:Simple to installSimple to operate and maintainSimple to customize and deployThe people behind DBFree have spent every effort toward simplicity and independence with the goal to give all the control back to the developer, avoiding dependencies from other IT specialists, complicated database engines, expensive development tools, arcane environments or complex APIs to learn.DBFree - like PHP - adds an intermediate layer of interpretation to web pages, situated between HTML and Javascript, so that web pages written in HTML (and eventually Javascript) can also contain Xbase commands and functions, embedded in the HTML code, and even into Javascript code. Unlike PHP, DBFree is already enabled to access its data sources without need to install any other software.
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