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)