Hi Craig,

I found an inconsistency in http://www.black-beans.com.br/foxprohistory/peoplethatmadehistory.htm when describing Jeb Long's and Wayne Ratliff short bio, related to dBASE.

At Jeb's you can read: "...he developed a file management program called JPLDIS written in FORTRAN, running in a UNIVAC 1108 mainframe ... JPLDIS was the precursor of dBASE, that runs in CP/M microcomputers ... Latter with Wayne Ratliff, Jeb Long translated..."

At Wayne's you can read: "He originally wrote a database program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Passadena, California. He called it Vulcan ... and then met up with George Tate and others and Ashton-Tate was born."

Are JPLDIS and Vulcan the same thing with 2 different names? Jeb and Wayne developed that/those program(s) together? Jeb and Wayne joined George Tate to form Ashton-Tate?

Could you help me here dismissing this (aparent) confusion?

Found it very interesting to know what you wrote: "Note there was never anyone named Ashton, it sounded better.".

Thanks in advance,

Fernando

PS. If you think it is more adequate, from now on I can post questions in the wiki, in order not to bother people with messages.