Company:Sleepycat Software, Inc.

Builds, distributes, and supports The Berkeley Database, an open source embedded database system. Berkeley DB is a programmatic toolkit that provides high-performance built-in database support for both standalone and client/server applications.

Sleepycat Software makes Berkeley DB, the most widely used open source developer database in the world with over 200 million deployments. Privately held and profitable since it started in 1996, the Company boasts some of the leading database experts in the world, including co-founder and CTO Dr. Margo Seltzer, the Herchel Smith Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University. In the early 1990's while at the University of California at Berkeley, Sleepycat founders Margo Seltzer and Keith Bostic developed a new key/value database to replace dbm file-based storage found in UNIX systems. This database evolved to become version 1.85 and was broadly distributed with the release of 4.4BSD UNIX in 1992. The code became very popular and was widely adopted, but users wanted commercial support and new features added to the software. In response, Seltzer and Bostic formed Sleepycat Software in 1996. The company released version 2.0 in 1997,

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• http://www.sleepycat.com/