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DBase That was a different time, though, and by 1990 Ashton-Tate (makers of dBase, and soon to be bought by Borland) was pretty much done. Microsoft bought dBa
by mikestew 6y ago
DBase
That was a different time, though, and by 1990 Ashton-Tate (makers of dBase, and soon to be bought by Borland) was pretty much done. Microsoft bought dBase-clone Fox Software in '93, which is pretty much the only thing that kept anything dBase alive until FoxPro got put out to pasture sometime around '05-'06.
IOW, were it not for the sponsorship of Microsoft, dBase would have been done 30 years ago.
- tabtab 6y agoThere were lawsuits flying left and right over the origin, which scared a lot of resources away from it. (It turned out Ashton-Tate stole it from NASA's JPL, who modified some of the keywords, but stole the concept from a defunct company and product called something like TymeShare.) I thought dBASE was a great language for small-project RAD and ad-hoc data fiddling. I could crank out smallish apps in hours.
- kazinator 6y ago> FoxPro got out out to pasture SET PROCEDURE TO MEADOW