Keith Bostic

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Keith Bostic is a computer programmer from the United States.

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

Bostic 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 works at Oracle Corporation as the result of Oracle's acqusition of Sleepycat Software, the developer of Berkeley DB. As of Feb. 19, 2008, his last day of work at Oracle is expected to be Feb. 29, 2008.

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