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Sleepycat Software, Inc. was the software company primarily responsible for maintaining the Berkeley DB packages from 1996 to 2006.[ 1]
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Berkeley 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]
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References
^ 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.
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