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* [[dBase]] - [[xBase]] database for CP/M and later DOS, OS/2 and MS Windows. | * [[dBase]] - [[xBase]] database for CP/M and later DOS, OS/2 and MS Windows. | ||
* [[Friday!]] - | * [[Friday!]] - Simplified, non-programmable version of dBase. | ||
* [[Framework]] - Integrated office application for DOS | * [[Framework]] - Integrated office application for DOS | ||
* [[MultiMate]] - Word processor software that emulates the Wang dedicated word processor. | * [[MultiMate]] - Word processor software that emulates the Wang dedicated word processor. | ||
Revision as of 06:05, 14 January 2016
A USA based software company founded in 1981 by George Tate and Hal Lashlee, who had licensed the Vulcan database for CP/M from C. Wayne Ratliff and started to market it under the name dBase II. Both the "Ashton" in the company name and the II in the dBase name are fabrications for marketing purposes, there never was a dBase I and the Ashton in the company was chosen rather than Lashlee as it sounded "more respectable".
The company was sold to Borland in 1991.
Known products
- dBase - xBase database for CP/M and later DOS, OS/2 and MS Windows.
- Friday! - Simplified, non-programmable version of dBase.
- Framework - Integrated office application for DOS
- MultiMate - Word processor software that emulates the Wang dedicated word processor.
- RapidFile - Flat file database.
Personnel
- George Tate (Founder)
- Hal Lashlee (Founder)
- C. Wayne Ratliff (dBase developer)