Keith Bostic, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Keith Bostic

American software programmer

Date of Birth: 26-Jul-1959

Place of Birth: United States of America, United States

Profession: engineer, computer scientist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Keith Bostic

  • Keith Bostic is an American software engineer and one of the key people in the history of Berkeley Software Distribution UNIX and open-source software. In 1986, Bostic joined the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California, Berkeley.
  • He was one of the principal architects of the Berkeley 2BSD, 4.4BSD and 4.4BSD-Lite releases.
  • Among many other tasks, he led the effort at CSRG to create a free software version of BSD UNIX, which helped allow the creation of FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD. Bostic was a founder of Berkeley Software Design Inc.
  • (BSDi), which produced BSD/OS, a proprietary version of BSD. In 1993, the USENIX Association gave a Lifetime Achievement Award (Flame) to the Computer Systems Research Group at University of California, Berkeley, honoring 180 individuals, including Bostic, who contributed to the CSRG's 4.4BSD-Lite release. Bostic and wife Margo Seltzer founded Sleepycat Software in 1996 to develop and commercialize Berkeley DB, an open-source, key-value database.
  • Sleepycat Software was the first company to dual-licensed open-source software.
  • In February 2006, the company was acquired by Oracle Corporation, where Bostic worked until 2008. Bostic and Michael Cahill founded WiredTiger in 2010 to create a NoSQL database management system.
  • In November 2014, the company was acquired by MongoDB, which employs Bostic.Bostic is the author of nvi, a re-implementation of the classic text editor vi and many other standard BSD and Linux utilities.
  • He is a past member of the Association for Computing Machinery, IEEE, and several POSIX working groups, and a contributor to POSIX standards.

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