What happened to Ashton-Tate and dBase

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Dave Farquhar traces the fall of Ashton-Tate and dBase at The Silicon Underground. dBase II dominated CP/M machines, then did the same on the IBM PC, and dBase III made the format the de facto standard for microcomputer databases. Borland bought Ashton-Tate on October 12, 1991 for $439 million. The…