- Keith Bostic
infobox person
name = Keith Bostic
employer =UC_Berkeley CSRG; later, (until Feb. 2008), nowrap beginSleepycat Software nowrap end / nowrap beginOracle Corporation nowrap end
known =nvi , FLOSS version ofBSD UNIX
website = http://www.bostic.com/keith.htmlKeith Bostic is a
computer programmer from theUnited States .Bostic was a member of the
Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at theUniversity of California, Berkeley , who createdBSD UNIX . Among many other tasks, he led the effort at CSRG to create afree software version of BSD, which helped allow the creation ofFreeBSD ,NetBSD andOpenBSD . BSD has also influenced and been influenced by both other Unix variants and otherUnix-like operating systems, such asGnu/Linux .Bostic worked at
Berkeley Software Design , who producedBSD/OS (also known as "BSDi"), a commercial version of BSD.Bostic is the author of
nvi .He works at
Oracle Corporation as the result of Oracle's acquisition ofSleepycat Software , the developer ofBerkeley DB . As of Feb. 19, 2008, his last day of work at Oracle is expected to be Feb. 29, 2008.External links
* [http://www.bostic.com/keith.html Keith Bostic's homepage]
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