Oracle and Sleepycat Expected A: Yes

Oracle and Sleepycat Expected A: Yes

Oracle Press Release Contact(s): Letty Ledbetter Bob Wynne Oracle Oracle 1.650.506.8071 1.650.506.5834 [email protected] [email protected] Oracle® Buys Open Source Software Company Sleepycat Expands Embedded Database Product Line with Be REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., 14-FEB-2006 Oracle today announced that it has added Berkeley DB to its embedded database product line which includes Oracle Lite for mobile devices and Oracle TimesTen for high performance in-memory database applications. "Sleepycat's products enhance Oracle's market-leading database product family by offering enterprise-class support to customers who need to embed a fast, reliable database at a lower cost," said Andrew Mendelsohn, senior vice president, Oracle Database Server Technologies. "We're very excited to join the world's largest enterprise software company and the industry's leading database company," said Mike Olson, CEO of Sleepycat Software. "Sleepycat's products, customer base and proven business model, combined with Oracle's tremendous expertise, complementary technology and resources, will allow us to better serve the needs of our customers and the open source community." According to Carl Olofson of IDC's research, "The embedded database market was projected last year to be just over $2 billion in 2005 and forecasted to grow to over $3.2 billion by the year 2009. This market is very diverse, and the technologies tend to be quite specialized. Sleepycat's Berkeley DB complements Oracle TimesTen and Oracle Lite, allowing Oracle to address a broad range of segments within the embedded DBMS market." Sleepycat Software's Berkeley DB is the most widely used open source database in the world with deployments estimated at more than 200 million. Berkeley DB is distributed under a dual license model, i.e. available under a public license and also available under a commercial license. Well-known open source projects such as the Linux and BSD UNIX operating systems, Apache web server, OpenLDAP directory, OpenOffice productivity software, and many others embed Berkeley DB technology. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. From http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2006_feb/sleepycat.html 14 February 2006 About Oracle Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest enterprise software company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com # # # Trademarks Oracle, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, and Siebel are registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. The above is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decision. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for Oracle's products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle. From http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2006_feb/sleepycat.html 14 February 2006 Overview and Frequently Asked Questions OVERVIEW Oracle Buys Open Source Software Company Sleepycat - Expands Embedded Database Product Line with Berkeley DB Oracle has expanded its embedded Oracle’s portfolio of embedded database technologies provide database offerings through the customers with a range of technical options to meet their diverse needs, with the backing of a global support organization. Oracle acquisition of Sleepycat Software, Inc., and Sleepycat’s complementary products, expertise and resources a privately held supplier of open source will help accelerate innovation and provide customers with richer, database software for developers of more complete solutions. Oracle currently intends to continue embedded applications. Sleepycat’s dual license model and plans to continue to invest in the Berkeley DB products and support offerings, and to utilize Oracle’s global channel reach to service even more customers. With the proliferation of new applications, devices, appliances, Web Services and highly available Software as a Service (SaaS), In conjunction with the expansion of available embedded there is significant and growing demand for embedded databases. database options, Oracle has formed a global initiative focused In addition to Oracle Database Lite Edition for mobile devices on marketing, selling and servicing the Oracle Lite, TimesTen and Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database for highly dynamic, and Berkeley DB products. This will include support procedures standards-compliant applications, Oracle now adds Berkeley DB and product release cycles tuned to the rapid-response needs database products for developers of tightly embedded, highly of embedded systems developers, and packaging and pricing customized applications. Berkeley DB is added to the Oracle flexibility that adjusts to the needs of Oracle’s partners. product line through the acquisition of Sleepycat Software. Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. Oracle, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, and Siebel are registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. 2 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS OVERVIEW QUESTIONS along with Oracle Lite Edition for mobile devices, encompass a more complete range of embedded database applications, and Q: Who is Sleepycat? complement Oracle’s family of enterprise database systems. A: Sleepycat Software makes Berkeley DB, the most widely Oracle’s database offerings now address a broader range of used open source embedded database in the world with over requirements, from mobile devices to embedded and “edge” 200 million deployments. Through a dual licensing model, systems to large-scale transactional systems, content managers and Berkeley DB gained very broad adoption through open source data warehouses. distribution and, at the same time, Sleepycat was able to fund further development and growth through commercial licenses Q: What products does Sleepycat develop and support? and support revenue. Sleepycat's customers include telecom A: The Berkeley DB family consists of three products: and networking leaders such as Cisco, Motorola and Ericsson, computing giants such as Sun, HP, Hitachi and Fujitsu, e- Berkeley DB business cornerstones such as Google, Amazon.com, AOL and Transactional storage engine for un-typed data in basic key/value Yahoo, and storage leaders such as EMC and Symantec. Berkeley data structures. DB is also widely used in open source projects, including all Berkeley DB Java Edition versions of Linux and BSD UNIX, OpenLDAP, sendmail, Kerberos, various Apache projects, Subversion, MySQL, Pure Java version of Berkeley DB providing nearly identical OpenOffice and many others. features, but with a different architecture optimized for the Java environment. Sleepycat's key customer deployments include: • Telecommunications Berkeley DB XML • Internet and enterprise infrastructure software Native XML database with XQuery-based access to documents stored in containers and indexed based on their content. Berkeley • Storage and systems management DB XML uses Berkeley DB as its underlying storage engine. • Security • Financial Services Q: What is embedded database software? • E-business A: Embedded databases are distinguished from conventional, client/ server databases by the fact that they store data locally instead of In these segments, applications addressed by Berkeley DB share a on a separate server, run in process with the application and do not common set of requirements: require human administration. Embedded databases do not require • Low latency and high throughput under extreme load a separate installation, configuration or administration, since the • Unattended operation applications in which they are embedded automatically perform those functions. Embedded databases are found in a broad range • High availability and automatic failure recovery of areas, but are generally invisible to users. These include devices, • Local, in-process storage, not remote or network based storage appliances and equipment, inside desktop software and enterprise • Predictable access patterns (static queries over dynamic data) software, within telecommunications and networking gear, in the • Low cost of ownership distributed components of a Service Oriented Architecture, and in highly available websites that deliver software as a service. Many The Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database, acquired in June of embedded applications are in industries that require 24x7 system 2005, also supports embedded applications - those requiring the availability and very high performance – and thus require such flexibility and standards of a relational database and the SQL provisions in the embedded database as well. query language. Together, Berkeley DB and Oracle TimesTen, 3 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Q: How will Berkeley DB complement Oracle’s database BUSINESS CONTINUITY products? Q: Can I still purchase Sleepycat products? A: Berkeley DB, Oracle TimesTen and Oracle Lite Edition are all embedded database products with different design goals. Both A: Yes. Currently, there are no plans to discontinue any of Oracle TimesTen and Berkeley DB are designed for use in server- Sleepycat’s products. Please see www.sleepycat.com for additional based, multi-user systems, however Berkeley DB is optimized for information. “edge” applications, such as those in network routers and gateways, network management systems, security and search appliances,

View Full Text

Details

  • File Type
    pdf
  • Upload Time
    -
  • Content Languages
    English
  • Upload User
    Anonymous/Not logged-in
  • File Pages
    21 Page
  • File Size
    -

Download

Channel Download Status
Express Download Enable

Copyright

We respect the copyrights and intellectual property rights of all users. All uploaded documents are either original works of the uploader or authorized works of the rightful owners.

  • Not to be reproduced or distributed without explicit permission.
  • Not used for commercial purposes outside of approved use cases.
  • Not used to infringe on the rights of the original creators.
  • If you believe any content infringes your copyright, please contact us immediately.

Support

For help with questions, suggestions, or problems, please contact us