[1] Britton Lee was founded in 1979 by David L. Britton, Geoffrey M. Lee and a group of hardware engineers along with Robert Epstein, Michael Ubell and Paula Hawthorn from the research team that created Ingres.

[4] After layoffs and financial losses in 1989, ShareBase was acquired by Teradata in June, 1990.

[7] This hardware/software combination of Omnibase/Smartstar/Britton Lee Data Base Machine(s),[8][9][10] was used by NASA,[11] USMC[12] and by financial services for analysis.

[citation needed] SmartStar is Signal Technology Inc (STI)'s application development environment for the VAX, and it supports[13] several databases using native connections: Although before SQL became standard STI's focus was on IQL (Interactive Query Language), now the query language it supports is SQL.

Components include[15] As the above combination moved along, STI and Britton-Lee saw a validation in the form of a review, which confirmed: "there exists no database management system that matches the performance of the IDM with OMNIBASE.