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Technical information

As a Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool for the programming of Visual Plants we used 4th Dimension from www.4D.com (version 2003). This RAD tool has many advantages for our purposes:

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It is possible to program for both, Windows and Macintosh operating systems without any additional work.

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It works really fast, especially proceeding queries in full text fields.

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The GUI (Graphical User Interface) is easy to use.

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The adaptation of the program as a web-based database is easily possible using the integrated webserver.

It can be easily implemented as a client/server system.

And, soon, the interface to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (www.gbif.org) will be available.