Britton Lee, Inc.

Britton Lee, Inc.

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company_name = Britton Lee Inc. (renamed ShareBase Corp.)
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company_type = Public
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foundation = 1979
location = Los Gatos, California, United States
key_people =
num_employees = ~200
industry = Database management systems
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Britton Lee Inc. was a pioneering relational database company. Renamed ShareBase, it was acquired by Teradata in June, 1990citejournal|title=Teradata Corp. suffers first quarterly loss in four years|url=http://www.allbusiness.com/north-america/united-states-california-metro-areas/123633-1.html|journal=Los Angeles Business Journal |date=November 5 1990 |accessed=2008-07-14|author=Todd White] .

History

Britton Lee was founded in 1979 by David L. Britton and Geoffrey M. Lee, along with Robert Epstein and Robert Shapiro and others from the research team that created Ingrescitebook|title=Readings in Database Systems: Fourth Edition|author=Joseph M. Hellerstein, Michael Stonebraker|year=2005|ISBN=0262693143|Publisher=MIT Press|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=7a48qSMuVcUC&pg=PA98&lpg=PA98&dq=Britton-Lee+founded&source=web&ots=t8ie-yTn-d&sig=QwapdZF39Dgc2HZV3S7k7FRL_aI&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result|accessed=2008-07-14|page=98] .

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

Shapiro later left Britton Lee to help found Sybase. Britton and Lee left the company in 1987citejournal|title=Some choose a hardware DBMS|author=Robert Knight|date=April 1988|accessed=2008-07-14|journal=Software Magazine|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0SMG/is_n5_v8/ai_6654621|] .

On May 15, 1989, the company formally changed its name to ShareBase Corporation.cite |title=Securities and Exchange Commission Form 10-Q|author=BRITTON LEE, INC.|date=March 31, 1989|publisher=]

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

Products

As of Fall, 1989cite|title=Server/8000 Product Overview"|date=Dec 1988|author=ShareBase|publisher=] :
* 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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