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The other player in the space is Filemaker Pro - a fair bit nicer to work with than Access, although still fairly horrible from an internals point of view (I think they've moved to using proper SQL and everything since I last used it though).

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I used to work for a web developer who worked on a well known campground company's site. We had a process that built static html pages out of an old Filemaker database and then synced them to a cluster of Windows web servers. That process has been in place since 2000 and there's no rush to change it because, frankly, it works pretty well.

I believe it started that way because our original developer didn't know anything else.

I briefly had the pleasure of working on a similar thing: it sticks out in my memory because the stack that ran the web site was entirely obsolete.

OS: Mac OS 9; DB: Filemaker Pro; templates: Lasso; webserver 4D WebSTAR.

This was in 2011.

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