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Re:Human genes renamed to stop Microsoft Excel from misreadi... by ableal on Monday April 11, 2022 @10:29AM (#30989248)
Funnily enough, I think one the original IBM PC killer apps was exactly that - dBase III https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBase

MS Access was the usurper of dBase's crown. And then Excel took over ...

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Re:Human genes renamed to stop Microsoft Excel from misreadi... by jaclaz on Monday April 11, 2022 @01:05PM (#30991766)
I would mention also (although it didn't have much success in the end) the Borland database, Paradox for Windows:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_(database)

I am not at all a programmer, but I remember that at least in early version(s) MS Access (circa 1994, Windows 3.1 times) was well behind Paradox in usability.

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