What (who) is Ashton-Tate Corporation - definition
COMPANY
Ashton-Tate Corporation; Ashton Tate; RapidFile; Tate Publishing (Ashton-Tate)
Ashton-Tate Corporation
<company> The original vendor of dBASE and joint developers
of EEMS. Ashton-Tate was founded by Charles Tate and Ashton
was his pet parrot's name. The parrot lived in the lobby of
the company's LA headquarters.
In the early 1990s Ashton-Tate was taken over by Borland
International, Inc., who later became {Borland Software
Corporation}.
[Dates? Address? ]
(2004-12-05)
Ashton, Maryland
UNINCORPORATED AREA IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND, UNITED STATES
Ashton, MD
Ashton is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. The commercial center of Ashton lies at the junction of Route 108 (Ashton Road) and New Hampshire Avenue (Route 650).
David Ashton (botanist)
AUSTRALIAN BOTANIST (1927-2005)
David Hungerford Ashton; David H. Ashton
David Hungerford Ashton OAM (6 July 1927 – 22 November 2005) was an Australian botanist and ecologist. He was the world expert on Eucalyptus regnans forests, claimed to be the most important timber species in Australia.
Wikipedia
Ashton-Tate
Ashton-Tate Corporation was a US-based software company best known for developing the popular dBASE database application and later acquiring Framework from the Forefront Corporation and MultiMate from Multimate International. It grew from a small garage-based company to become a multinational corporation. Once one of the "Big Three" software companies, which included Microsoft and Lotus, the company stumbled in the late 1980s and was sold to Borland in September 1991.
