Ashton-Tate
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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.
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Industry | Software |
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Founded | August 1980; 43 years ago (1980-08) |
Founder | George Tate, Hal Lashlee |
Defunct | October 1991; 32 years ago (1991-10) |
Fate | Acquired |
Successor | Borland |
Headquarters | , US |
Products | dBASE, Framework, MultiMate, InterBase, RapidFile, and more |
Number of employees | 1,750 |
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