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danielweber on Aug 8, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Steam Expands Beyond Games

I hope they sell a relational database and call it Cornerstone.

mintplant on Aug 9, 2012 [–]

What? Why?

tapoxi on Aug 9, 2012 | [–]

He's referring to Infocom's (the Zork/text adventure people) big bet on getting into the non-game space. Infocom spent all this money developing a natural language relational database - Cornerstone - that sunk the company.

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