1990 to a former dBASE Mac user who formed New Era Software Group to continue development. At the time they quoted 35,000 users. New Era released an update in late November as nuBASE Mac 1.3. 1.3 proved to be considerably more stable and faster than the Ashton-Tate versions, although this did little to help given the product's reputation, which the press considered undeserved by this point. 1.3 also added the ability for the product to call HyperCard XCMD's, which allowed it to use the variety of plugins from the HyperCard world. In late 1991 the company suffered a major theft which slowed development of the follow-up version, originally planned to be a 2.0. Instead, in the spring of 1992 they released a "32-bit clean" nuBASE Pro 1.5, which allowed it to run on Apple's latest operating systems and PowerMac machines. At the same time the product was modified to allow it to act as a pure front-end to a new nuBASE LAN Manager 1.5 server. Although what happened at this point is not clear, either New Era folded or changed names. The new release, renamed to nuBASE Pro 1.5, followed from Tactic Software. Once again the rights changed hands, this time to Dolphin Software who released a version as nuBase Pro 2.0 in 1995. Their plans to port it to Windows went nowhere, and once again the product disappeared, the rights reverting to the original author from the 1980s. Discontinuation Sales of the product in the post Ashton-Tate era appear to have been close to zero, and the product is still best remembered under its original name. In this form it has been called a "killer app", but in a non-traditional sense that it helped kill the company, and the reputation of Apple with it. Meanwhile, dBASE IV turned out to be a huge disaster on the PC causing Ashton-Tate to struggle financially. The company was purchased by Borland in 1991, and development of all of Ashton-Tate's Mac products ended. Description In common with most database applications today, dBASE Mac had two basic "modes", one for designing the database itself, and another for building forms to interact with it. In this case dBASE Mac was lauded for both, many describing it as "the right way to do a Mac database". See also FullWrite Professional Full Impact Notes References Citations Bibliography Correspondence with Dennis Cohen, one of the original developers of