4th Dimension (Software)

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4th Dimension (or 4D, or Silver Surfer, as it was known during early development) is a relational database management system and IDE developed by Laurent Ribardière.

The 4D product line has since expanded to an SQL front-end, integrated compiler and several productivity plug-ins and interfaces. Some of the plug-ins created by 4D themselves include 4D Write (a word processor), 4D Draw (to draw shapes), 4D View (somewhat like a spreadsheet, but with extra functionality) and 4D Internet Commands (which let you add all sorts of Internet related functionality to a database). There are also over 100 third-party plugins, free and commercial.

These days, one of the more popular uses of 4D is as a web server. Having the web server and a compiled application running as one gives developers the ability to create some very fast web sites with a high level of adaptability.

Today, 4D is published by the French company 4D SAS, but many countries have their own local distributor who can handle sales and support.

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[edit] History

Silver Surfer as it was known during early development was developed by Laurent Ribardière in 1984. In 1993, 4D Server, the client/server version of 4th Dimension was introduced and since 1995, 4D has supported both the Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh operating systems.

[edit] Current Version

The current version of the program is 4D v11 SQL Release 3 (11.3).

[edit] Similar Software

4D is often compared to FileMaker since both are cross platform databases and IDE. Microsoft Access is also comparable but only supports Microsoft Windows.

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