Borland Reflex

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[edit] Reflex

Borland Reflex is a flat-file database from the days of DOS although its use continues to the present day. It was the first commercial PC database to use the mouse and graphics mode; and used drag'n'drop capability in the report formatting module. Reflex was originally developed by Analytica (not to be confused with Analytica) which was later bought by Borland. One of the Reflex developers, Ken Day, came to Borland from Analytica; and later moved to Macromedia where he worked on Shockwave development among other things.

As a testament to properly written software, one can still run Reflex on any modern Windows-based PC including Windows XP Media Edition. It should be noted that under Windows 2000 or XP, the ansi.sys file may have to be added to the CONFIG.NT file in the system32 directory^[1] for the characters to display properly on screen. The line to be added is:

device=%systemroot%\system32\ansi.sys

Gorden Bell, a [former?] senior researcher in Microsoft's Media Presence Research Group, includes a case study^[2] on the Reflex development cycle in his book, High-Tech Ventures: The Guide For Entrepreneurial Success (ISBN 0-201-56321-5 hardback).