<
tool, product, language> An interactive
DBMS, originally
from
Ashton-Tate Corporation, and the language used by it.
dBASE evolved from
Vulcan by Wayne Ratliffe, which came out
in around 1980 and ran on CP/M. It was called dBaseII when
sold to
Ashton-Tate Corporation.
The first release was
dBASE II, ca 1980. There never was a
"
dBASE I". Later versions included:
dBASE III,
dBASE III+,
and
dBASE IV.
Ashton-Tate was taken over in the early 1990s by what became
Borland Software Corporation who sold
dBase in March(?)
1999 to the newly formed
dBase Inc.
dBase Inc's first release
was
Visual dBASE 5.7, a Y2K upgrade to Visual
dBASE 5.x.
Current version, as of 2003-11-24:
dBASE PLUS 2.0x build 1703.
dBase Home (http://dbase.com/).
(2003-11-24)