Keith Bostic

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Keith Bostic is an American computer programmer.

Bostic was a member of the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California, Berkeley, who created BSD. Among many other tasks, he led the effort at CSRG to create a free software version of BSD, which helped allow the creation of NetBSD, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD. BSD has also influenced and been influenced by both other Unix variants and other Unix-like operating systems such as GNU/Linux.

He worked at Berkeley Software Design, who produced BSD/OS (also known as BSDi), a commercial version of BSD.

Bostic is the author of nvi.

He now works at Oracle Corporation as the result of Oracle's acqusition of Sleepycat Software, the developer of Berkeley DB.

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