Keith Bostic (software engineer)
Template:Short description Template:BLP sources Template:Infobox person Keith Bostic (born July 26, 1959) is an American software engineer and one of the key people in the history of Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) Unix and open-source software.
BiographyEdit
In 1986, Bostic joined the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California, Berkeley.<ref name="DiBoni">Template:Cite book</ref> He was one of the principal architects of the Berkeley 2BSD, 4.4BSD and 4.4BSD-Lite releases.<ref name="Dougherty">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Among many other tasks, he led the effort at CSRG to create a free software version of BSD Unix, which, in turn, enabled the creation of FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD.
Bostic was a founder of Berkeley Software Design Inc. (BSDi),<ref name="Dougherty"/> which produced BSD/OS, a proprietary version of BSD.
In 1993, the USENIX Association gave a Lifetime Achievement Award (Flame) to the Computer Systems Research Group, honoring 180 individuals, including Bostic, who contributed to the group's 4.4BSD-Lite release.
Bostic and his wife Margo Seltzer founded Sleepycat Software in 1996 to develop and commercialize Berkeley DB, an open-source, key-value database. Sleepycat Software was the first company to develop dual-licensed open-source software. In February 2006, the company was acquired by Oracle Corporation,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> where Bostic worked until 2008.
Bostic and Michael Cahill founded WiredTiger in 2010 to create a NoSQL database management system. In November 2014, the company was acquired by MongoDB, which employed Bostic.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Bostic is the author of nvi—a re-implementation of the classic text editor vi—and many other standard BSD and Linux utilities. He is a past member of the Association for Computing Machinery, IEEE, and several POSIX working groups, and a contributor to POSIX standards.<ref name=bostic-informit>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
PublicationsEdit
- M. McKusick, K. Bostic, M. Karels, J. Quarterman: The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System, Addison-Wesley, April 1996, Template:ISBN. French translation published 1997, International Thomson Publishing, Paris, France, Template:ISBN.
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