February 15, 2006

Oracle Snaps Up Open-Source DB Vendor

Oracle Corporation has extended its embedded database product line with the acquisition of open-source database vendor Sleepycat Software Incorporated. Berkeley DB from Sleepycat is embedded in various open-source products like Linux and BDS UNIX operating systems, Apache Web server, OpenLDAP directory and the OpenOffice productivity suite. Sleepycat isn't Oracle's first open-source purchase. Last year, it bought Finland's Innobase, which makes the InnoDB database engine used at the heart of MySQL AB's database. Computer World reports:

The moves by software vendors to snap up open-source companies are seen partly as a way to attract additional developers, in the hope that those developers will upgrade to paid-for products for wide application deployments.

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