Wayne Ratliff
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Cecil Wayne Ratliff (born 1946) wrote the
Vulcan. Raised in Germany and the US, he now resides in the Los Angeles
area.
Biography
Ratliff was born in 1946 in Trenton, Ohio, USA. From 1969 to 1982 he worked for the Martin Marietta Corporation in a progression of engineering and managerial positions. He was a member of the NASA Viking program flight team when the Viking spacecraft landed on Mars in 1976, and wrote the data management system, MFILE, for the Viking lander support software.
In 1978 Ratliff wrote Vulcan, a
dBASE, to Ashton-Tate. In 1982 Ratliff left JPL and joined Ashton-Tate as vice president of new technology. (He never used the software for its original purpose; in 1984 Ratliff confessed that dBASE had made him so busy that "I've only had time to watch two or three football games".)[1]
Ratliff was the project manager for dBASE III, as well as designer and lead
sailboat racing.[3]
References
- ^ Powell, David B. (1984-02-07). "From Basement To Boardroom". PC Magazine (interview). p. 131. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
- ^ Susan Lammers. "The History of Fox Pro: Interview with Wayne Ratliff". foxprohistory.org. Retrieved 20 July 2012.
- ^ Doug Barney and Thomas Caywood (1 August 2007). "Life After dBase". VisualStudio Magazine. Retrieved 19 January 2016.