Editing Database (section)

===1980s, on the desktop===
Besides IBM and various software companies such as [[Sybase]] and [[Informix Corporation]], most large computer hardware vendors by the 1980s had their own database systems such as [[DEC (company)|DEC]]'s [[VAX Rdb/VMS]].<ref name="rdbmslateryears20070612">{{Cite interview |interviewer=Burton Grad |title=RDBMS Plenary Session: The Later Years |url=https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2013/05/102701921-05-01-acc.pdf |access-date=2025-05-30 |publisher=Computer History Museum |date=2007-06-12}}</ref> The decade ushered in the age of [[Desktop Computer|desktop computing]]. The new computers empowered their users with spreadsheets like [[Lotus 1-2-3]] and database software like [[dBASE]]. The dBASE product was lightweight and easy for any computer user to understand out of the box. [[C. Wayne Ratliff]], the creator of dBASE, stated: "dBASE was different from programs like BASIC, C, FORTRAN, and COBOL in that a lot of the dirty work had already been done. The data manipulation is done by dBASE instead of by the user, so the user can concentrate on what he is doing, rather than having to mess with the dirty details of opening, reading, and closing files, and managing space allocation."<ref>[http://www.foxprohistory.org/interview_wayne_ratliff.htm Interview with Wayne Ratliff]. The FoxPro History. Retrieved on 2013-07-12.</ref> dBASE was one of the top selling software titles in the 1980s and early 1990s.