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)