Sleepycat Software
{{Short description|American technology company}}
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| name = Sleepycat Software, Inc.
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| type = Private company
| genre = Database software
| fate = Acquired
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| successor = Oracle Corporation
| foundation = 1997
| founder = Margo Seltzer and Keith Bostic
| defunct = 2006
| location_city = Lincoln, Massachusetts
| location_country = U.S.
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| key_people = Michael Olson (CEO)
| industry = Computer software
| products = Berkeley DB
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Sleepycat Software, Inc. was the software company primarily responsible for maintaining the Berkeley DB packages from 1996 to 2006.{{Cite book|last=Fowler|first=Adam|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O_UwBgAAQBAJ&dq=sleepycat+software+maintained+Berkeley+DB+packages&pg=PA125|title=NoSQL For Dummies|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|year=2015|isbn=9781118905623|pages=125}}
Company
Berkeley DB is freely-licensed database software originally developed at the University of California, Berkeley for 4.4BSD Unix. Developers from that project founded Sleepycat in 1996 to provide commercial support after a request by Netscape to provide new features in the software.{{cite news |last=Brunelli |first=Mark |url=http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1071880,00.html |title=A Berkeley DB primer |journal=Enterprise Linux News |date=March 28, 2005 |access-date=2009-04-28 |archive-date=2008-09-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080906125402/http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1071880,00.html |url-status=dead }} In February 2006, Sleepycat was acquired by Oracle Corporation, which continued developing Berkeley DB.{{cite news | url = http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=180200853 | title = Oracle Buys Sleepycat, Is JBoss Next? | first = Charles | last = Babcock | date = February 14, 2006 | work = InformationWeek | access-date = 2007-01-17 | archive-date = 2011-05-15 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110515023408/http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=180200853 | url-status = dead }}
The founders of the company were spouses Margo Seltzer and Keith Bostic, who are also original authors of Berkeley DB. Another original author, Michael Olson, was the President and CEO of Sleepycat. They attended University of California, Berkeley, where they developed the software that grew to become Berkeley DB. Sleepycat was originally based in Carlisle, Massachusetts{{cite web | url = http://www.sleepycat.com/ | title = The Sleepycat Software Contact Page | date = 1997-05-12 | access-date = 2010-04-14 | publisher = Sleepycat Software, Inc. | location = Carlisle, Massachusetts | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/19971210224023/http://www.sleepycat.com/ | archive-date = 1997-12-10 }} and in 2000 moved to Lincoln, Massachusetts.{{cite web | url = http://www.sleepycat.com/contact.html | title = The Sleepycat Software Contact Page | date = 2000-06-08 | access-date = 2010-04-14 | publisher = Sleepycat Software, Inc. | location = Lincoln, Massachusetts | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20001205052100/http://sleepycat.com/contact.html | archive-date = 2000-12-05 | url-status = dead }}
Sleepycat distributed Berkeley DB under a proprietary software license that included standard commercial features, and simultaneously under the newly created Sleepycat License, which allows open source use and distribution of Berkeley DB with a copyleft redistribution condition similar to the GNU General Public License.
Sleepycat had offices in California, Massachusetts and the United Kingdom, and was profitable during its entire existence.{{cite web | url = http://www.sleepycat.com/company/pdfs/sc_about_1205.pdf | title = About Sleepycat | date = 2006-01-04 | publisher = Sleepycat Software, Inc. | location = Lincoln, Massachusetts | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060315211506/http://www.sleepycat.com/company/pdfs/sc_about_1205.pdf | archive-date = 2006-03-15 }}
See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/berkeley-db/ Oracle Berkeley DB] — successor to Sleepycat's web site
{{Berkeley Software Distribution}}
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Category:Defunct companies based in Massachusetts
Category:Defunct software companies of the United States
Category:Free software companies
Category:Software companies disestablished in 2006
Category:Software companies established in 1996
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