Editing Sleepycat Software (section)

==Company==
[[Berkeley DB]] is [[free software|freely-licensed]] [[database software]] originally developed at the [[University of California, Berkeley]] for [[Berkeley Software Distribution|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.<ref name="brunelli-2005">{{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 }}</ref> In February 2006, Sleepycat was acquired by [[Oracle Corporation]], which continued developing Berkeley DB.<ref>{{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 }}</ref>

The founders of the company were spouses [[Margo Seltzer]] and [[Keith Bostic (software engineer)|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]]<ref>{{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 }}</ref> and in 2000 moved to [[Lincoln, Massachusetts]].<ref>{{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 }}</ref>

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 software|open source]] use and distribution of Berkeley DB with a [[copyleft]] redistribution condition similar to the [[GNU General Public License]].<ref name="brunelli-2005" />

Sleepycat had offices in [[California]], [[Massachusetts]] and the [[United Kingdom]], and was profitable during its entire existence.<ref>{{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 }}</ref>