Ashton-Tate

Ashton-Tate Corporation
IndustrySoftware
FoundedAugust 1980; 44 years ago (1980-08)
FounderGeorge Tate, Hal Lashlee
DefunctOctober 1991; 33 years ago (1991-10)
FateAcquired
SuccessorBorland
Headquarters,
US
ProductsdBASE, Framework, MultiMate, InterBase, RapidFile, and more
Number of employees
1,750

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.