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dBase LLC - Binghamton, NY

History

Originally developed by C. Wayne Ratliff for Ashton-Tate which released the dBASE II product in 1981. Ashton-Tate was acquired by Borland International in 1991.

KSoft

Products

DOS

2013 - dBASE Classic - Re-release of dBASE 5.0

Windows

2013 - dBase Plus 8, 8.1
2014 - dBase Plus 9.1, 9.2, 9.5
2015 - dBase Plus 10, 10.1, 10.2
dBASE 2019

Links

dBase LLC - Current owners of the dBase codebase.
The dBASE Developers Bulletin

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-A [[CP/M]] database system introduced in 1980 as '''dBase II''' and was quickly ported to most common 8 bit platforms, was ported to [[DOS]] in 1982 and later to OS/2 and [[MS Windows]] and became an industry standard in the early to mid 80's and the basis of the [[xBase]] language, but declined rapidly in the late 80's and early 90's when developer [[Ashton-Tate]] could not keep up with the competition.
+{{DISPLAYTITLE:dBase}}
+'''dBase LLC''' - Binghamton, NY
-====Text & programmers editors with dBase support====
+==History==
-* [[Boxer]] - dBase support included by default - Commercial - OS/2 and DOS versions discontinued, Win32 versions still available.
+Originally developed by C. Wayne Ratliff for [[Ashton-Tate]] which released the [[dBASE II]] product in 1981.
+Ashton-Tate was acquired by ''Borland International'' in 1991.
+*KSoft
-==Versions==
+==Products==
 ;DOS
-* 1982 - dBase II
+* 2013 - dBASE Classic - Re-release of dBASE 5.0
-* 1983 - dBase II Runtime
-* 1984 - dBase III - Rewritten in [[C]], much improved functionality but much slower than the [[assembly]] coded dBase II.
-* 1986 - dBase III+ - Menu system a la Condor Database
-* 1994 - dBase V
-* 2013 - dBase Classic - Re-release of dBase V
-;DOS and OS/2 versions
-* 1988 - dBase IV
-* 1990 - dBase IV v1.1
 ;Windows
 * 2013 - dBase Plus 8, 8.1
 * 2014 - dBase Plus 9.1, 9.2, 9.5
 * 2015 - dBase Plus 10, 10.1, 10.2
+* dBASE 2019
-;Issues:dBase IV has a known index corruption problem, this was fixed in version V but it appears that there is no patch available for IV to fix this.
 ==Links==
 * [http://www.dbase.com dBase LLC] - Current owners of the dBase codebase.
+* [http://www.dbase.com/Knowledgebase/dbulletin/bulletin.htm The dBASE Developers Bulletin]
-==License and availability==
+[[Category:Companies]]
-* Commercial - OS/2 version discontinued - DOS version still sold and supported under the name '''dBase Classic''' - MS Windows version still developed.
-==Author==
-* C. Wayne Ratliff (Original Author)
-* [[Ashton-Tate]]
-* [[Borland]]
-* KSoft
-* dBase LLC
-[[Category:Databases]][[Category:xBase]][[Category:DOS Databases]][[Category:WinOS/2 Databases]]