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Line 19: For much of the 1990s a direct-DAL database server was available on the Macintosh, '''Butler'''. However, like any server software on the "classic" MacOS, Butler was seriously hampered by the Mac's single-user [[file system]] and [[multitasking]] and could never really deliver the sort of performance the same server would have on [[Windows NT]] or [[Unix]]. One of the more common clients for DAM was [[HyperCard]]. The combination of HyperCard and DAL presented a serious challenge to existing vendors who could offer nothing with a GUI. Apple gave a series of demos of HyperCard/DAL, and soon [[Oracle Corporation]] purchased a HyperCard-clone, PLUS from [[Spinnaker Software]], to produce [[Oracle Card]]. [[Category:Failed Apple initiatives]]

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