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=== Forefront Corporation ===
[[Robert Carr (Programmer)|Robert Carr]] and [[Marty Mazner]] founded [[Forefront Corporation]] to develop Framework in 1983. In July of that year, they approached [[Ashton-Tate]] to provide the [[Capital (economics)|capital]] and to later market the product.  Together with a team of six other individuals, Carr and company released the original Framework.

The initial release of Framework included about a dozen or so frame types (identified by a [[FRED (programming language)|FRED]] function, @frametype). Frame types included containers which could be filled up with other frames, empty frames which could become other type of frames based on user input, formulas embedded in them or program output targeting them, [[word processor]] frames, flat-[[database]] frames and [[spreadsheet]] as well as graphic frames.

The product proved successful enough, that in 1985, Ashton-Tate bought Forefront{{sfn|Lammers|1986|p=207}} a year sooner than planned.