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)