Britton Lee, Inc.
 (Also need BL logo) |
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| Public | |
| 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.
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.
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.
On May 15, 1989, the company formally changed its name to ShareBase Corporation.
After layoffs and financial losses in 1989, ShareBase was acquired by Teradata in June, 1990.
As of Fall, 1989:
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