The advantage of Clipper over dBASE was that it could be compiled and executed under MS-DOS as a standalone application. Ĭlipper was created as a replacement programming language for Ashton Tate's dBASE III, a very popular database language at the time. In 1992, the company was sold to Computer Associates for 190 million dollars and the product was renamed to CA-Clipper. Larry Heimendinger was Nantucket's president. Clipper was created by Nantucket Corporation, a company that was started in 1984 by Barry ReBell (management) and Brian Russell (technical)
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