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We provide maintenance, enhancement and migration programming services for all xBase applications, including dBase III+ through dBase IV.
We have been providing dBase Programming Services since dBase III+ was first introduced in 1985.
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dBase applications can be easily migrated to the latest Visual FoxPro or rewritten in a newer platform. We typically recommend Visual FoxPro for migrating older dBase applications because the code can be highly compatible. This fact allows much of the business logic to be reused with few modifications. The data structures are also nearly identical to those of FoxPro which simplifies the process of migrating your data.
As with Clipper and FoxPro applications, we can migrate these applications to other platforms, such as C#, .Net, ASP, etc.. However the lack of compatibility with the language syntax of these other platforms does require the application to be rewritten. The business logic can still be derived from the old code, but none of the old code can be reused.
Another option available today is migrating to the new dBase Plus 10 platform.
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Ashton Tate was founded in 1981. Their first programming language was dBase II which was a based on a database application named Vulcan, created by Martin Marietta and Wayne Ratliff. Ashton Tate released dBase III+ in 1985 to meet the growing demand for a more robust database management system. dBase III+ quickly gained a large share of the personal computing and small business market. This was primarily due to the fact the programming language was easy to use, maintain and adapt to a wide variety of business needs.
When the company first released dBase IV, it was a buggy product that killed their place in the market nearly overnight. A series of poor business decisions led to the release of dBase IV and the final demise of the company. dBase was sold to Borland in 1991, which released a number of new versions. Unfortunately, for dBase lovers, dBase would never regain the control of the market it enjoyed through the end of the 80's.
Ashton Tate's foresight and mistakes enabled other database management systems to enter the market and eventually take center stage. Both Clipper and FoxPro both owe their success to Vulcan and to Ashton Tate's dBase.
In 2014 dBase Plus 9 was released by dBase LLC. Since then they have released several products designed to support older versions of dBase. Their latest version, dBase Plus 11 was released in 2017. The new versions of dBase have let to gain a significant hold on the market.