Sleepycat to extend paw into Asia

First off, killer name for a software company - Sleepycat Software. But seriously though, I think that they may actually find some real success by setting up shop in Asia. Goodness knows there is enough people there to value what they are offering.

Sleepycat Software (Profile, Products, Articles) is looking seriously at setting up operations in Asia and has ambitious hopes for its XML (Extensible Markup Language) and Java embedded open-source databases. The company introduced version 2.0 of its Berkeley DB Java Edition (JE) Monday.

IDG News Service chatted with the head feline at the 30-person privately held firm, Sleepycat President and Chief Executive Officer Mike Olson, about the company’s genesis and the statistic Sleepycat loves to throw around — the estimated 200 million deployments of its Berkeley DB software. The firm’s customers include Amazon.com (Profile, Products, Articles), America Online (Profile, Products, Articles) (AOL), Cisco Systems (Profile, Products, Articles), EMC (Profile, Products, Articles), Google (Profile, Products, Articles), Hewlett-Packard and Motorola (Profile, Products, Articles). Sleepycat pioneered a dual licensing model for its products, a no-cost open-source license allowing redistribution if the application using the database is open source, and a commercial license for the redistribution of proprietary applications.

Olson was in at the start of what would later become Sleepycat, being one of the original authors of Berkeley DB, while studying at the University of California at Berkeley. He then worked at object relational database company Illustra and later its purchaser Informix Software. Olson joined Sleepycat in 1998 as vice president of sales and marketing, becoming company president and CEO in 2001. The company’s headquarters are in Lincoln, Massachusetts, and it has offices in Emeryville, California, and Woking, U.K. [Read the rest]