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Keith Bostic | |
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| Born | (1959-07-26)July 26, 1959 (age 65) |
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| Known for | nvi andBerkeley DB |
| Spouse | Margo Seltzer |
| Website | bostic |
Keith Bostic (born July 26, 1959) is an Americansoftware engineer and one of the key people in the history ofBerkeley Software Distribution (BSD) Unix andopen-source software.
In 1986, Bostic joined theComputer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at theUniversity of California, Berkeley.[1] He was one of the principal architects of the Berkeley 2BSD, 4.4BSD and 4.4BSD-Lite releases.[2] Among many other tasks, he led the effort at CSRG to create afree software version of BSD Unix, which, in turn, enabled the creation ofFreeBSD,NetBSD, andOpenBSD.
Bostic was a founder ofBerkeley Software Design Inc. (BSDi),[2] which producedBSD/OS, a proprietary version of BSD.
In 1993, theUSENIX Association gave a Lifetime Achievement Award (Flame) to the Computer Systems Research Group, honoring 180 individuals, including Bostic, who contributed to the group's 4.4BSD-Lite release.
Bostic and his wifeMargo Seltzer foundedSleepycat Software in 1996 to develop and commercializeBerkeley DB, anopen-source,key-value database. Sleepycat Software was the first company to develop dual-licensed open-source software. In February 2006, the company was acquired byOracle Corporation,[3] where Bostic worked until 2008.
Bostic and Michael Cahill foundedWiredTiger in 2010 to create aNoSQL database management system. In November 2014, the company was acquired byMongoDB, which employed Bostic.[4]
Bostic is the author ofnvi—a re-implementation of the classictext editorvi—and many other standard BSD and Linux utilities. He is a past member of theAssociation for Computing Machinery,IEEE, and severalPOSIX working groups, and a contributor to POSIX standards.[5]
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