Ashton-Tate Corporation

Ashton-Tate Corporation

(company)The original vendor of dBASE and joint developersof EEMS. Ashton-Tate was founded by Charles Tate and Ashtonwas his pet parrot's name. The parrot lived in the lobby ofthe company's LA headquarters.

In the early 1990s Ashton-Tate was taken over by BorlandInternational, Inc., who later became Borland Software Corporation.