Sleepycat Software, Inc. was the software company primarily responsible for maintaining the Berkeley DB packages from 1996 to 2006.[1]
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| Company type | Private company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Computer software |
| Genre | Database software |
| Founded | 1997 |
| Founder | Margo Seltzer and Keith Bostic |
| Defunct | 2006 |
| Fate | Acquired |
| Successor | Oracle Corporation |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Michael Olson (CEO) |
| Products | Berkeley DB |
Company
editBerkeley DB is freely-licensed database software originally developed at the University of California, Berkeley for 4.4BSD Unix. Developers from that project founded Sleepycat in 1996 to provide commercial support after a request by Netscape to provide new features in the software.[2] In February 2006, Sleepycat was acquired by Oracle Corporation, which continued developing Berkeley DB.[3]
The founders of the company were spouses Margo Seltzer and Keith Bostic, who are also original authors of Berkeley DB. Another original author, Michael Olson, was the President and CEO of Sleepycat. They were all at University of California, Berkeley, where they developed the software that grew to become Berkeley DB. Sleepycat was originally based in Carlisle, Massachusetts[4] and moved to Lincoln, Massachusetts.[5]
Sleepycat distributed Berkeley DB under a proprietary software license that included standard commercial features, and simultaneously under the newly created Sleepycat License, which allows open source use and distribution of Berkeley DB with a copyleft redistribution condition similar to the GNU General Public License.[2]
Sleepycat had offices in California, Massachusetts and the United Kingdom, and was profitable during its entire existence.[6]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Fowler, Adam (2015). NoSQL For Dummies. John Wiley & Sons. p. 125. ISBN 9781118905623.
- ^ a b Brunelli, Mark (March 28, 2005). "A Berkeley DB primer". Enterprise Linux News. Archived from the original on 2008-09-06. Retrieved 2009-04-28.
- ^ Babcock, Charles (February 14, 2006). "Oracle Buys Sleepycat, Is JBoss Next?". InformationWeek. Archived from the original on 2011-05-15. Retrieved 2007-01-17.
- ^ "The Sleepycat Software Contact Page". Carlisle, Massachusetts: Sleepycat Software, Inc. 1997-05-12. Archived from the original on 1997-12-10. Retrieved 2010-04-14.
- ^ "The Sleepycat Software Contact Page". Lincoln, Massachusetts: Sleepycat Software, Inc. 2000-06-08. Archived from the original on 2000-12-05. Retrieved 2010-04-14.
- ^ "About Sleepycat" (PDF). Lincoln, Massachusetts: Sleepycat Software, Inc. 2006-01-04. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-03-15.
External links
edit- Oracle Berkeley DB — successor to Sleepycat's web site