Sleepycat Software

Sleepycat Software

Infobox Defunct Company
company_name = Sleepycat Software, Inc.
company_
slogan =
fate = Acquired
successor = Oracle Corporation
foundation =
defunct = February, 2006
location =
industry = Database Software, Open Source
key_people = Margo Seltzer and Keith Bostic, Michael Olson
products = Berkeley DB
num_employees =
parent =
subsid =

Sleepycat Software, Inc. was the commercial entity behind the Berkeley DB, a widely used free software developer database with over 200 million deployments worldwide, now part of Oracle Corporation. Many open source projects [cite web | url = http://www.sleepycat.com/customers/opensource.html | title = Customers: Open Source | work = Sleepycat PR | accessdate = 2007-01-17 waybackdate|date=20051205014955|site=http://www.sleepycat.com/customers/opensource.html | title = archive] and commercial customers [cite web | url = http://www.sleepycat.com/customers/customerlist.html | title = Customers: Customer List | work = Sleepycat PR | accessdate = 2007-01-17 waybackdate|date=20051205014955|site=http://www.sleepycat.com/customers/customerlist.html | title = archive] use Berkeley DB to provide fast, local persistence with zero administration. Sleepycat has offices in California, Massachusetts and the United Kingdom. The site http://www.sleepycat.com currently redirects to the Berkeley DB index page on the Oracle website.

The company was founded in 1996 to develop, support and distribute Berkeley DB. It was based in Carlisle, MA originally and moved to Lincoln, MA. The founders were wife and husband team Margo Seltzer and Keith Bostic, who are also the original authors of Berkeley DB. Another original author, Michael Olson, is the President and CEO of Sleepycat. They were at University of California at Berkeley, where they developed a software that grew to become Berkeley DB.

As well as a proprietary license, Sleepycat software is released under a free software license known as the Sleepycat license.

In February 2006, Sleepycat was purchased by Oracle Corporation. [cite news | url = http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=180200853 | title = Oracle Buys Sleepycat, Is JBoss Next? | author = Charles Babcock | date = February 14, 2006 | work = InformationWeek | accessdate = 2007-01-17 ]

References

External links

* [http://www.sleepycat.com Sleepycat] - The former company web site now redirects to Oracle's corporate web site.
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20060315211506/www.sleepycat.com/company/pdfs/sc_about_1205.pdf] SleepyCat's web site from archive.org.


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать курсовую

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Sleepycat Software — Sleepycat Software, Inc. war ein amerikanisches Softwareunternehmen mit Sitz in Lincoln (Massachusetts). Es wurde 1996 von Margo Seltzer und Keith Bostic gegründet. Die Entwicklung des Hauptprodukts Berkeley DB begann jedoch bereits 1991 an der… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Sleepycat — Software, inc. ist ein amerikanisches Softwareunternehmen mit Sitz in Lincoln (Massachusetts). Es wurde 1996 von Margo Seltzer und Keith Bostic gegründet. Die Entwicklung des Hauptprodukts Berkeley DB begann jedoch bereits 1991 an der Universität …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Sleepycat License — The Sleepycat Public License is an OSI approved open source license used by Sleepycat Software for their products Berkeley DB, Berkeley DB Java Edition and Berkeley DB XML.According to the Free Software Foundation, [… …   Wikipedia

  • Sleepycat License — Die Berkeley Database License (früher Sleepycat Software Product License) (engl. license: „Lizenz“) ist eine von Oracle (old Sleepycat Software, Inc.) herausgegebene Freie Software Lizenz. Sie wurde ursprünglich für die Berkeley DB verwendet. Die …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • List of software licenses — In computing, software that is copyrighted and licensed under a software license is done under a variety of licensing schemes. For end users there are proprietary licenses and there are free software licenses. Within these schemes are further… …   Wikipedia

  • Licencia de software — Una licencia de software es un contrato entre el licenciante (autor/titular de los derechos de explotación/distribuidor) y el licenciatario del programa informático (usuario consumidor /usuario profesional o empresa), para utilizar el software… …   Wikipedia Español

  • Anexo:Licencias de software aprobadas por la FSF — La siguiente lista de Licencias de software han sido aprobadas por la Free Software Foundation (FSF) como licencias que cumplen con la Definición de Software Libre. Están así de acuerdor con las normativas de la FSF, sobre Licencias de Software… …   Wikipedia Español

  • Comparison of structured storage software — Not to be confused with COM Structured Storage. Structured storage is computer storage for structured data, often in the form of a distributed database.[1] Computer software formally known as structured storage systems include Apache… …   Wikipedia

  • Berkeley DB — Original author(s) Margo Seltzer and Keith Bostic of Sleepycat Software Developer(s) Sleepycat Software, later Oracle Corporation Stable release 5.2.28 / June 10, 2011; 5 months ago …   Wikipedia

  • Berkeley-DB — Entwickler: Oracle Aktuelle Version: 4.7 Betriebssystem: Unix, Linux, Windows, AIX, Sun Solaris, SCO U …   Deutsch Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”