Ashton-Tate
| Ashton-Tate Corporation
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | August 1980 |
| resolution | October 1991 |
| Reason for dissolution | Takeover by Borland |
| Seat | Torrance , California |
| Number of employees | 1750 |
| Branch | Software manufacturer |
The Ashton-Tate Corporation was an American software company that became known for the development of the popular database program dBASE . Further products were Framework , MultiMate , InterBase , RapidFile and Javelin .
In September 1991 the company was bought by Borland . Ashton-Tates dBASE and InterBase were further developed and continued to be sold with success. dBASE Plus, a development environment for 32-bit applications, is distributed today by dataBased Intelligence Inc. InterBase is maintained by Borland.
Web links
- Article in Computerwoche 12/1990 (in the archive)
- Interview with Wayne Ratliff - contains information on the early history of dBASE