dBASE is a database management program for the Microsoft Windows Operating System. dBASE was created back in the late 1970s for a micro computing Operating System that is no longer used or available, it was created by Wayne Ratcliff and released under the Ashton-Tate name, a US software company that eventually became Borland. and was one of the first software applications of its type, it is still widely used to do and has, for many years been one of the most popular and widely used database management programs on the market. The dBASE program uses the DBF file format which has since been adopted by a number of other database management program, including ones that were influenced by — and created as a result of — the dBASE software.
dBASE is rarely used anymore but it has left its legacy everywhere in the market. From it’s early days back in the seventies and eighties, right up until the modern day, dBASE is still widely respected and continues to influence other database management programs such as Visual FoxPro, which was also created by Microsoft.
