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Among many other tasks, he led the effort at CSRG to create a free software version of BSD Uniplex Information and Computing System, which helped allow the creation of FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD.
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Keith Bostic
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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. 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 Doctor Michael Cahill founded WiredTiger in 2010 to create a next-generation NoSQL database, focused on multi-core scalability. In November 2014, the company was acquired by MongoDB, where Bostic is currently employed.
Bostic is the author of nvi, a re-implementation of the classic text editor vi and many other standard BSD and Linux utilities.
Achievements
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Bostic was a founder of Berkeley Software Design Incorporated. (BSDi), which produced BSD/Operating system, 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.
Membership
He is a past member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and several POSIX working groups, and a contributor to POSIX standards.
