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| Company type | Private company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Computer software |
| Genre | Database software |
| Founded | 1997 |
| Founder | Margo Seltzer andKeith Bostic |
| Defunct | 2006 |
| Fate | Acquired |
| Successor | Oracle Corporation |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Michael Olson(CEO) |
| Products | Berkeley DB |
Sleepycat Software, Inc. was thesoftware company primarily responsible for maintaining theBerkeley DB packages from 1996 to 2006.[1]
Berkeley DB isfreely-licenseddatabase software originally developed at theUniversity of California, Berkeley for4.4BSD Unix. Developers from that project founded Sleepycat in 1996 to provide commercial support after a request byNetscape to provide new features in the software.[2] In February 2006, Sleepycat was acquired byOracle Corporation, which continued developing Berkeley DB.[3]
The founders of the company were spousesMargo Seltzer andKeith Bostic, who are also original authors of Berkeley DB. Another original author, Michael Olson, was the President and CEO of Sleepycat. They attendedUniversity of California, Berkeley, where they developed the software that grew to become Berkeley DB. Sleepycat was originally based inCarlisle, Massachusetts[4] and in 2000 moved toLincoln, Massachusetts.[5]
Sleepycat distributed Berkeley DB under aproprietary software license that included standard commercial features, and simultaneously under the newly created Sleepycat License, which allowsopen source use and distribution of Berkeley DB with acopyleft redistribution condition similar to theGNU General Public License.[2]
Sleepycat had offices inCalifornia,Massachusetts and theUnited Kingdom, and was profitable during its entire existence.[6]
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