- 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 andKeith Bostic ,Michael Olson
products =Berkeley DB
num_employees =
parent =
subsid =Sleepycat Software, Inc. was the commercial entity behind the
Berkeley DB , a widely usedfree 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 inCalifornia ,Massachusetts and theUnited 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 toLincoln, MA . The founders were wife and husband teamMargo Seltzer andKeith 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 theSleepycat 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.
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