Britton Lee, Inc.
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| Industry | Database management systems |
| Founded | 1979 |
| Headquarters | Los Gatos, California, United States |
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Number of employees
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~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 (Bob) 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.
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