Q&A: Former Sleepycat CEO touts Oracle open-source moves

Sleepycat is BerkleyDB - a simple, free database easy to embed in other programs. You may remember, they also own a key patent used by MySQL (that caused alot of concern when Oracle bought them, and it, last year.)

Q&A: Former Sleepycat CEO touts Oracle open-source moves: "With just 25 employees, is Sleepycat helping to bring open-source values to Oracle? I've been in the database industry since 1986. I'm well aware of the sometimes fairly negative reputation that Oracle has, of being a fearsome competitor. My experience inside the company so far has been fairly good. There are a lot of innovative, hardworking people. And I have seen such people assume leadership roles and drive the company forward, irrespective of their actual titles. Oracle is a company where the individual contribution matters. Moreover, there is a legacy of open-source involvement at Oracle and by its employees. We have just done a pretty bad job of talking about it."