>Years later, I was working as a consultant for Ashton Tate (didn't everyone - seems that way)and completed my project. This was the period when Ashton Tate had the suit against Fox, etc. They even sued the IEEE, and that is when the term xBase came into being.

Hmm, I recently heard an anecdote from a guy that claims he coined 'XBase' in response to a letter from Ashton Tate demanding that he take the word 'DBase' out of the name of the conference he was organizing.