A software company founded in 1980 by Hal Lashlee and George Tate to market dBASE II database management system and programming language, which was created by Wayne Ratliff. The company developed and acquired other products, including Framework, MultiMate and dBASE Mac. In the mid-1980s, Ashton-Tate was one of the hottest software companies in the personal computer business. In 1991, it was acquired by Borland, which dispensed with most of its products except for dBASE. See
dBASE Plus,
Framework and
MultiMate.