DBASE PLUS 11 / 14 December 2016; 18 months ago ( 2016-12-14) Implementation language Website Influenced, WordTech products,., dBase (also stylized dBASE) was one of the first for, and the most successful in its day. The dBase system includes the core, a query system, a, and a that ties all of these components together. DBase's underlying file format, the file, is widely used in applications needing a simple format to store structured data. DBase was originally published by for microcomputer operating system in 1980, and later ported to and computers running. On the PC platform, in particular, dBase became one of the best-selling software titles for a number of years. A major upgrade was released as dBase III, and ported to a wider variety of platforms, adding, and. By the mid-1980s, Ashton-Tate was one of the 'big three' software publishers in the early business software market, the others being and.
A popular database management system produced by Ashton Tate Corporation. Its back that’s right, dBASE CLASSIC™ one of the best-selling dBASE™ for MS-DOS is back!dBASE CLASSIC™ is based on the original dBASE™ V for DOS product released by Borland back in 1994.
Starting in the mid-1980s, several companies produced their own variations on the dBase product and especially the dBase programming language. These included (later renamed FoxPro),, and other so-called products.
Many of these were technically stronger than dBase, but could not push it aside in the market. This changed with the disastrous introduction of dBase IV, whose design and stability were so poor that many users switched to other products. At the same time, there was growing use of IBM-invented (Structured Query Language) in database products.
Another factor was user adoption of on desktop computers. The shift toward SQL and Windows put pressure on the makers of xBase products to invest in major redesign to provide new capabilities. In spite of growing pressure to evolve, in the early 1990s xBase products constituted the leading database platform for implementing business applications. The size and impact of the xBase market did not go unnoticed, and within one year, the three top xBase firms were acquired by larger software companies. Borland purchased Ashton-Tate, Microsoft bought Fox Software, and Computer Associates acquired. However, by the following decade most of the original xBase products had faded from prominence and several disappeared. Products known as dBase still exist, owned by dBase LLC.
Main article: In the late 1960s, Fred Thompson at the (JPL) was using a product named RETRIEVE to manage a database of electronic calculators, which were at that time very expensive products. In 1971 Thompson collaborated with Jack Hatfield, a programmer at JPL, to write an enhanced version of RETRIEVE which became the JPLDIS project. JPLDIS was written in on the mainframe, and was presented publicly in 1973. When Hatfield left JPL in 1974, took over his role. While working at JPL as a contractor, entered the. He had no interest in the game, but felt he could win the pool by processing the post-game statistics found in newspapers.
In order to do this, he turned his attention to a database system and, by chance, came across the documentation for JPLDIS. He used this as the basis for a port to on his kit-built microcomputer, and called the resulting system Vulcan (after on ). Ashton-Tate [ ] George Tate and Hal Lashlee had built two successful start-up companies - Discount Software was one of the first to sell PC software programs through the mail to consumers, and Software Distributors which was one of the first wholesale distributors of PC software in the world. They entered into an agreement with Ratliff to market Vulcan, and formed to do so. Ratliff ported Vulcan from PTDOS to. Hal Pawluk, who handled marketing for the nascent company, decided to change the name to the more business-like 'dBase'. Pawluk devised the use of lower case 'd' and all-caps 'BASE' to create a distinctive name.