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Keith Bostic

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Keith Bostic (born July 26, 1959) is an American software engineer and one of the key people in the history of Berkeley Software Distribution Unix and open-source software. He was one of the principal architects of the Berkeley 2BSD, 4.4BSD and 4.4BSD-Lite releases at the Computer Systems Research Group at the University of California, Berkeley, where he led the effort 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., which produced BSD/OS, and with his wife Margo Seltzer he founded Sleepycat Software in 1996 to develop and commercialize Berkeley DB.

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Birth Year
1959 1
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Software Industry, Industries
Source Wikipedia: Keith Bostic (software engineer)

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Berkeley Software Design, Companies and Brands
Source Wikipedia: Berkeley Software Design
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Keith Bostic

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United States

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1. Wikipedia: Keith Bostic (software engineer)
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    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.
  • Associated With: Software Industry, Lead: associated industry
    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.
  • In Group: Company Founders and Co-founders, Article text
    Bostic and his wife Margo Seltzer founded Sleepycat Software in 1996 to develop and commercialize Berkeley DB, an open-source, key-value database.
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Wikipedia: Berkeley Software Design
Companies Founded: Berkeley Software Design, Article body: founded-by
Quote, Companies Founded: Berkeley Software Design, Article body: founded-by
BSDI was founded by Rick Adams and members of the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California, Berkeley, including Keith Bostic, Kirk McKusick, Mike Karels, Bill Jolitz and Donn Seeley.
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