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Britton Lee, Inc.

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Type
  
Public

Founded
  
1979

Number of employees
  
~200

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Industry
  
Database management systems

Headquarters
  
Los Gatos, California, United States

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

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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.

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.

Products

As of Fall, 1989:

  • 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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