FormFlow was the name of a line of electronic forms products initially created and sold by

Delrina Delrina Corporation was a Canadian software company active from 1988 to 1995. The company was best known for WinFax, a software package which enabled computers equipped with fax modems to transmit copies of documents to standalone fax machines or ...

in the early- to mid-1990s.

History

The first product in this line was PerForm, which was designed to work under GEM in

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. The PerForm PRO and FormFlow products that succeeded PerForm were designed to work on Windows 3.0 and

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respectively. FormFlow later had native support for

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starting with version 2.0 in 1996. Delrina was bought by Symantec late in 1995, and the electronic forms division was sold to

JetForm JetForm Corporation was the name of a Canadian software manufacturer created by four consultants (Wayne Hall, Bob Allum, Tom Hicks, John Gleed and Ed Deinstadt) that was based out of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and an electronic form software product ...

in 1996. JetForm, which later changed its name to Accelio, was in turn was bought by

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, and the electronic forms products were officially end-of-lifed in 2004.

References

External links

Legacy JetForm/Accelio Form Products FAQ, PDF, accessed November 3, 2005
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