Ashton-Tate
| Industry | Software |
|---|---|
| Founded | August 1980 |
| Founder | George Tate, Hal Lashlee |
| Defunct | October 1991 |
| Fate | Acquired |
| Successor | Borland |
| Headquarters | , US |
| Products | dBASE, Framework, MultiMate, InterBase, RapidFile, and more |
Number of employees | 1,750 |
Ashton-Tate Corporation was a US-based software company best known for developing the popular dBASE database application and later acquiring Framework from the Forefront Corporation and MultiMate from Multimate International. It grew from a small garage-based company to become a multinational corporation. Once one of the "Big Three" software companies, which included Microsoft and Lotus, the company stumbled in the late 1980s and was sold to Borland in September 1991.