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Ashton-Tate Corporation


Recent Articles about Ashton-Tate Corporation

Slim Pickings In The Software Garden

Jan 1, 1985

Like June in the old Rodgers and Hammerstein show tune, personal computers are bustin' out all over. An estimated 6.5 million units -- what the industry ...  Read more

Preselling The Company

By Robert A. Mamis |  Apr 1, 1986

The acquisition of Forefront was arranged and the dowry was set before the company was even born.  Read more

Marketing;

By Robert A. Mamis |  May 1, 1986

We receive hundreds of prospectuses and annual reports at INC. every year, and 99.8% of them are your standard black-and-white look-alikes. Every so ofte...  Read more

Different Routes: Ashton-tate

Aug 1, 1984

Software companies may be in a better position than most high-technology companies to avoid venture capital in the early stages of development. Largely d...  Read more

Inc. 100 Index

May 1, 1987

Company (rank) Advanced Telecommunications (13) American Businessphones (44) American City Business Journals (11) American Communi...  Read more

Small Company Initial Public Offerings: December 1983

Mar 1, 1984

Offering O-T-C Size Price sym. Company Business/product ($ mil...  Read more

Stocking Up On Capital Gains;

May 1, 1986

For the first time in three years, INC.'s annual academic exercise -- buying $100 worth of stock in each of its hundred fast-growing corporations -- has t...  Read more

The Inc. 100 Portfolio;

May 1, 1986

* Six INC. 100 chief executive officers once worked for IBM Corp. * Symbion Inc. (#43), which makes the Jarvik-7 artificial heart and other artifici...  Read more

Have It Your Way

By Abby Solomon |  Apr 1, 1984

Program generators can allow you to be your own best source for software.  Read more

Introducing The 1986 Inc. 100

By Virginia Inman |  May 1, 1986

Like a bunch of adolescents, the companies on the INC. 100 are an unsettled lot. They have grown so fast that their knees ache. They have consumed capit...  Read more

The New Software: A Powerful Ally

By Steve Ditlea |  Nov 1, 1981

These little disks can help you analyze finances and manage information.  Read more

1987 The Inc. 100;

May 1, 1987

WE'RE AWAITING CONFIRMATION FROM THE observatory at Mount Palomar that all the planets and moons did indeed orbit around Wall Street last year. Certainly...  Read more

The Secrets Of Guerrilla Management

By Fred M. Gibbons |  Feb 1, 1987

There was a time when keeping a company alive through its start-up phase required one sort of managerial attitude, and running a going concern required an...  Read more

Easy Listenin' On The Software Circuit

By George Gendron |  Feb 1, 1985

Over the years, we have gotten used to losing senior writer Robert Mamis to a variety of hardware -- airplanes, windsurfers, his 34-foot ocean racer, Fido...  Read more

Why Smart Companies Are Saying No To Venture Capital

By Joel Kotkin |  Aug 1, 1984

It seemed, at first, like the logical next act in the classic entrepreneurial script. Having developed his new database software on his home-built Heathk...  Read more

Selling Software With An Estee Lauder Image

By J.H |  Nov 1, 1984

Think of your software program as a can of tomatoes. Or a new skin moisturizer. C. Rowland Hanson does, and he is trying to market software with the same ...  Read more

The Inc. 100 Portfolio;

By Nell Margolis |  May 1, 1986

1967: Mutz Corp. is founded by Harold Mutz, chief executive officer, and his son, O.U. "Oz" Mutz. The company has no vaunting ambition: it is just one of...  Read more

A Manager's Guide To Integrated Software;

Feb 1, 1985

SYMPHONY Lotus Development, Corp., 161 First St., Cambridge, MA 02142, (617) 253-9150, Min. memory: 320K RAM, Retail: $695 Spreadsheet-based, ...  Read more

From Riches To Rags . . . And Back

By Robert A. Mamis |  May 1, 1987

For the first time in four years, the INC. 100 outperformed the leading averages  Read more

The 1985 Inc. 100

By Curtis Hartman |  May 1, 1985

Introducing the fastest-growing public companies in America.  Read more

Precision Marketing

By Anne Field |  Jun 15, 1996

An in-depth look at how database marketing lets you analyze trends and target top customers.  Read more

Real Service

By Robert A. Mamis |  May 1, 1989

Mail-order computer software and peripherals company sets new industry standards for customer service.  Read more

Climbing To The Top Of The Charts

By Abby Solomon |  Sep 1, 1983

Microcomputer software sales are heading for the stratosphere. But the most popular programs aren't necessarily the best.  Read more

Aah, Those Were The Days

By Joseph P. Kahn and Stephen D. Solomon |  May 1, 1986

Inflation topping 15%, the prime nudging 20%, and business failure rates skyrocketing. When it came to starting a company. . .  Read more

A Manager's Guide To Integrated Software

By Robert A. Mamis |  Feb 1, 1985

THEY MACRO! THEY MASK! THEY MERGE! SOME OF THEM EVEN DO WINDOWS . . . BUT CAN THEY HELP YOU RUN YOUR BUSINESS?  Read more