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Britton Lee Inc. (renamed ShareBase Corp.)
Company typePublic
IndustryDatabase management systems
Founded1979
HeadquartersLos Gatos, California, United States
Number of employees
~200

Britton Lee Inc. was a pioneering relational database company. Renamed ShareBase, it was acquired by Teradata in June, 1990.[1]

History

Britton Lee was founded in 1979 by David L. Britton, Geoffrey M. Lee and a group of hardware engineers along with Robert Epstein, Michael Ubell and Paula Hawthorn from the research team that created Ingres.[2]

The company provided a critically acclaimed relational database management system (RDBMS) and supporting parallel-processing database servers.

Epstein later left Britton Lee to help found Sybase. Britton and Lee left the company in 1987.[3]

On May 15, 1989, the company formally changed its name to ShareBase Corporation.[4]

After layoffs and financial losses in 1989, ShareBase was acquired by Teradata in June, 1990.[1]

Products

As of Fall, 1989:[5]

  • ShareBase II (tm): An RDBMS designed for a client/server environment.
  • Server/8000(tm): "Upper-mid-range database server" that supported ShareBase II. Optimized database operations on a RISC/ECL database processor. Used a "distributed function multiprocessor architecture" and included up to 256 megabytes of "shared high-speed data memory." Supported a variety of clients, including IBM PC DOS, Apple Macintosh, Sun, AT&T 3B series computers systems, Pyramid, DEC VAX, HP 3000 and HP 9000, and IBM VM/CMS and MVS.
  • Server/300
  • Server/700
  • ShareCom: Communications facilities between database clients and the ShareBase servers.

References

  1. ^ a b Todd White (November 5, 1990). "Teradata Corp. suffers first quarterly loss in four years". Los Angeles Business Journal. Retrieved 2008-07-14.
  2. ^ Joseph M. Hellerstein, Michael Stonebraker (2005). Readings in Database Systems: Fourth Edition. MIT Press. p. 98. ISBN 0-262-69314-3. Retrieved 2008-07-14.
  3. ^ Robert Knight (April 1988). "Some choose a hardware DBMS". Software Magazine. Retrieved 2008-07-14.
  4. ^ BRITTON LEE, INC. (March 31, 1989), Securities and Exchange Commission Form 10-Q
  5. ^ ShareBase (December 1988), Server/8000 Product Overview
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