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SearchEnterpriseLinux: Sleepycat Database Has Internet Purring

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 26, 2004

[ Thanks to Rob
Westervelt
for this link. ]

“If Sleepycat Software CEO Mike Olson has his way, the company’s
Berkeley DB, an open source developer database, will find its way
into nearly every telecommunications switch and router, and mobile
and online application on the market.

“Berkeley DB, an embedded database, is well known in the
telecommunications industry and many Web sites, where the software
acts as the core message store for e-mail, messaging and Web
security identification applications. Sleepycat also makes Java and
XML editions of the database used by Amazon.com, Google, Cisco
Systems Inc. and British Telecom…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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