dBase

Built on a 25-year foundation of technology and software development excellence, dBase LLC was launched in 2012 as a company with a vision to create a new generation of business intelligence products and data management tools that will transform the way people manage data. The product dBASE, created in 1981 by the founders of Ashton-Tate, was world's first widely used relational database management system and one of the best-selling software titles of its time. The company grew from a small garage-based team to a multinational corporation recognized among the "Big Three," including Microsoft and Lotus. In 1991, Ashton-Tate was sold to Borland Software Corporation, which popularized dBASE as the world's most accepted database standard. Today, dBASE is used by millions of software developers and others in FORTUNE 1000 companies and government agencies worldwide.