Editing DBase (section)

===dBase III===
[[File:Screenshot of Dbase III Plus.png|thumbnail|Screenshot of Dbase III Plus]]
As platforms and [[operating system]]s proliferated in the early 1980s, the company found it difficult to port the [[assembly language]]-based dBase to target systems. This led to a rewrite of the platform in the [[C programming language]], using automated code conversion tools. The resulting code worked, but was essentially undocumented{{why|date=February 2024}} and inhuman in syntax{{how|date=February 2024}}, a problem that would prove to be serious in the future.{{Citation needed|date=April 2013}}

In May 1984, the rewritten dBase III was released. Although reviewers widely panned its lowered performance, the product was otherwise well reviewed. After a few rapid upgrades, the system stabilized and was once again a best-seller throughout the 1980s, and formed the famous "application trio" of PC compatibles (dBase, [[Lotus 123]], and [[WordPerfect]]). By the fall of 1984, the company had over 500 employees and was taking in US$40 million a year in sales (equivalent to ${{Inflation|US|40|1984}}&nbsp;million in {{Inflation/year|US}}), the vast majority from dBase products.{{citation needed|date=February 2021}}

====Cloning====
There was also an unauthorized clone of dBase III called Rebus in the [[Soviet Union]]. Its adaptation to the Russian language was reduced to the mechanical replacement of the name, the russification of the help files and the correction of the sorting tables for the Russian language.