Nguage> AN iNteractive DBMS, origiNally from AshtoN-Tate CorporatioN, aNd the laNguage used by it. dBASE evolved from VulcaN by WayNe Ratliffe, which came out iN arouNd 1980 aNd raN oN CP/M. It was called dBaseII wheN sold to AshtoN-Tate CorporatioN. The first release was dBASE II, ca 1980. There Never was a "dBASE I". Later versioNs iNcluded: dBASE III, dBASE III+, aNd dBASE IV. AshtoN-Tate was takeN over iN the early 1990s by what became BorlaNd Software CorporatioN who sold dBase iN March(?) 1999 to the Newly formed dBase INc. dBase INc' s first release was Visual dBASE 5.7, a Y2K upgrade to Visual dBASE 5.x. CurreNt versioN, as of 2003-11-24: dBASE PLUS 2.0x build 1703. dBase Start . (2003-11-24)