Sleepycat Software

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Sleepycat Software, Inc.
Fate	Acquired
Successor	Oracle Corporation
Founded
Defunct	February, 2006
Location
Industry	Database Software, Open Source
Products	Berkeley DB
Key people	Margo Seltzer and Keith Bostic, Michael Olson

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 ^[1] and commercial customers ^[2] 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 of 2006, Sleepycat was purchased by Oracle Corporation. ^[3]

[edit] References

1. ^ Customers: Open Source. Sleepycat PR. Retrieved on 2007-01-17. archive at the Internet Archive
2. ^ Customers: Customer List. Sleepycat PR. Retrieved on 2007-01-17. archive at the Internet Archive
3. ^ Charles Babcock. "Oracle Buys Sleepycat, Is JBoss Next?", InformationWeek, February 14, 2006. Retrieved on 2007-01-17. 

[edit] External links

• Sleepycat - The former company web site now redirects to Oracle's corporate web site.
• [1] SleepyCat's web site from archive.org.