ashton-tate corporation

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ashton-tate corporation - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Ashton-Tate Corporation
  
     <company> The original vendor of dBASE and joint developers
     of EEMS.  Ashton-Tate was founded by Charles Tate and Ashton
     was his pet parrot's name.  The parrot lived in the lobby of
     the company's LA headquarters.
  
     In the early 1990s Ashton-Tate was taken over by Borland
     International, Inc., who later became Borland Software Corporation
     .
  
     [Dates?  Address?]
  
     (2004-12-05)