From: Mike '/m' 


... and hawked by that wonderful bilge pump magazine ad.

 /m


On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 17:28:04 -0500, Mike '/m'  wrote:

>
>So named because it was designed for use by the martian lander...
>
> /m
>
>On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 16:47:16 -0500, Gary Wiltshire  wrote:
>
>>IIRC, "dBase I" would have been Vulcan.
>>
>>On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 15:50:15 -0500, "John Beamish"
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Marketing:  Ashton-Tate's dBase II.  Nobody named Ashton (or
was it Tate?);
>>>no product called dBase I.
>>>
>>>
>>>"Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
>>>news:3e80b638{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,974253,00.asp
>>>>
>>>> Ah marketing you either love it or loath it....
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Adam
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>

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