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Revision as of 05:37, 31 March 2023
dBASE is a database management system developed by Ashton-Tate.
It became an industry standard in the early to mid 80s and the basis of the xBase language, but declined rapidly in the 90s when it could not keep up with the competition. In 1991 Ashton-Tate was sold to Borland International.
- Editor support
- Boxer - dBase support included by default
- DOS
- 1994 - dBASE 5.0 for DOS
- 2013 - dBASE Classic - Re-release of dBASE 5.0
- Macintosh
- 1987: dBASE Mac
- Windows
- 1994: Borland dBASE 5.0 for Windows
- 1995: Borland Visual dBASE 5.5
- 1997: Borland Visual dBASE 7
- 2013 - dBase Plus 8, 8.1
- 2014 - dBase Plus 9.1, 9.2, 9.5
- 2015 - dBase Plus 10, 10.1, 10.2
Licence and availability
- 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 CP/M port) Ashton-Tate
- Borland
- KSoft
- dBase LLC
Links
- dBase LLC - Current owners of the dBase codebase.
- The dBASE Developers Bulletin