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xBase is the generic term for all Programming Language s that derive from the original DBase (Ashton-Tate) programming language. There are indicators that there was a non-commercial predecessor.

The 'x' means the various flavors, such as , the Harbour Project and XHarbour .

A developer community support for xBase that is focused mainly on Clipper, FoxPro, {Link without Title} Harbour, and xBase++ can be found here:
Oasis Web Site . A comprehensive list of communities related to Visual FoxPro can be found here .

  • base", and some wanted it spelled "X-base") Once Borland acquired Ashton-Tate in mid 1991 (and was apparently required to drop the lawsuits as an anti-trust related condition of the merger), such standardization efforts were given new life. An ANSI committee was officially formed, and began regular meetings in 1992. Marc Schnapp was the first chairman, and the first meeting was held at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California which was essentially the birthplace of dBASE II a number of years before. The group met on a regular basis in a variety of locations over the next few years, and representatives from most major vendors participated. But despite lip service from all the vendors on the need for a standard, no one seemed willing to change their product syntax to match that of a competitor.


In recent years there seems to be a renewed interest in xBase, mostly because of a number of open source, portable, xBase implementations (listed above), and the scripting applicability of the language.

As of of this writing (April 2006) xBase is available and aggressively expanded, on practically any available platform, including scripting environment such as HTML clients, ASP Servers, Windows Scripting Host, and self contained Interpreter.


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