Y> 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)