Sleepycat is the developer of the Berkeley DB database software. That is the preferred database backend for OpenLDAP. OpenLDAP has become popular in Linux as a user/password database. Samba, Jabber, qmail, Sendmail and others can be configured to use OpenLDAP for authentication.Oracle said on Tuesday that it acquired open-source database company Sleepycat Software for an undisclosed sum.
The database giant said Sleepycat's open-source Berkeley DB database will complement Oracle's existing line of closed-source databases for embedding within applications. The products differ from Oracle's flagship enterprise database software used for general business systems.
See the full story here:Unlike Oracle's flagship Oracle 10g database, Sleepycat's Berkeley DB is intended to be embedded within applications. Many of Sleepycat's customers are third-party software companies or value-added resellers, Sleepycat CEO Michael Olson said Monday in an interview with CNET News.com.
"People use Berkeley DB where they don't need the full power of SQL" relational database systems, Olson said. "In systems or devices, where you have to keep data safe and fast but you can predict its use in advance. Think e-mail servers, or switches and routers."
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