Enable Software

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Enable Software, Inc. was a privately held software development company located in Ballston Lake, New York. It was founded in 1984 [1] by Ron Quake and Bob Hamilton. [2]

The company's flagship product, called Enable, was an integrated office suite for IBM PC compatibles. The suite included a word processor, a 3D spreadsheet, a relational database, and integrated communications. In 1992, Enable Office added electronic mail and calendaring software. At that time, the company estimated that its products had more than one million users. [3] Enable 4.5 was released in April 1992, with support for OS/2 2.0. [4] In 1993, it introduced JetForm for Enable, "a mail-enabled forms designer for Microsoft Windows." [5]

PowerLine, another Enable product, was a multi-protocol terminal client for Windows, similar to Hyperterminal, and was released in 1993. [6]

Enable ceased operations in 1997. At that time, there were an estimated 190,000 active users of Enable products. [7]

References

  1. ↑ New York Companies, USA. "ENABLE SOFTWARE, INC" . Retrieved Feb 16, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Profiles In Technical Excellence (1985)". PCMAG. Retrieved 2017-09-23.
  3. ↑ Enable Software. "Press release" . Retrieved Feb 16, 2014.
  4. ↑ Hamilton, Rosemary (April 6, 1992). "Enable 4.5 application package ships". Computerworld. Retrieved May 3, 2016.
  5. ↑ Hammett, Jim (June 21, 1993). "Enable debuts workflow line with forms designer". Infoworld. Retrieved May 3, 2016.
  6. ↑ Hammett, Jim (April 5, 1993). "Windows package offers keyboard chatting feature". InfoWorld. Retrieved May 3, 2016.
  7. ↑ Promises Kept, LLC. "Enable Integrated Software Support". Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved Feb 16, 2014.


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