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dBASE was the first widely used database management system or DBMS for microcomputers, published by Ashton-Tate for CP/M, and later on the Apple II, Apple Macintosh and IBM PC under DOS where it became one of the best-selling software titles for a number of years. dBASE was never able to transition successfully to Microsoft Windows and was eventually displaced by newer products like Paradox, Clipper, and FoxPro. dBASE was sold to Borland in 1991, which sold the rights to the product line in 1999 to the newly-formed dBASE Inc.
Starting in the mid 1980's many other companies produced their own dialects or variations on the product and language. These included FoxPro (now Visual FoxPro), Quick-Silver, Clipper, Xbase++, FlagShip, and Harbour. Together these are informally referred to as xBase or XBase.
dBASE's underlying file format, the dbf file, is widely used in many other applications needing a simple format to store structured data.
dBASE was licensed to users for a term of fifty years in the unlikely event that a user would use their copy of dBASE for a long period of time.
Visual dBase/dBase Plus frontend developer/programmer. Backend databases include dBase, Oracle, DB2, InterBase, Microsoft SQL Server, and Microsoft Access.
The Talk About Network brings you an open on-line forum to discuss the basics to the most complicated ways of sorting your information. Post your thoughts, ideas, queries, reviews and answers to some of the web’s largest issues. Help save the internet from hackers and the government.
The Web development power of dBASE is demonstrated through samples of web applications, custom classes, articles, and other web-related resources.
This free electronic magazine is aimed at helping dBASE developers and promoting dBASE technology. It contains a mixture of articles suited to novice and advanced programmers.
dBASE developers can find or register ISPs and web hosting companies that support dBASE web applications and database environments.
Courseware and tutorials are available to help users learn the language and the database, reporting and web application tools of dBASE Plus, dBASE SE and dB2K.
dBASE, Inc. publishes dBASE Plus which combines in one package interactive data management with rapid desktop and web-based application development. Their products and the dBASE Language (dBL) are supported by online resources and news groups.
dBASE user support is provided through FAQs, examples, guides, utility programs, and links. The résumé of Geoff Wass is also available.
Ken Mayer has been active for years in the dBASE community. He oversees the dBASE Users' Function Library Project (dUFLP) which is a broad range of useful functions and classes for dBL developers. Ken Mayer has numerous other samples of source code to sha
