Ulterior Motives: 2023-2024 ACM Athena Lecturer Margo Seltzer recalls the motivations behind the development of the Berkeley DB database software library, and other achievements during her career.

An interview with lecturer Margo Seltzer is presented which addresses topics such as the motivations behind the creation of the Berkeley DB database software library by Seltzer, Keith Bostic, and Mike Olson. The Sleepycat Software firm and fundraising are assessed, as well as open-source dual licens...

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Published in:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 66; no. 12; pp. 96 - 98
Main Author:	Hoffmann, Leah
Format:	Interview
Published:	Association for Computing Machinery Dec2023
Subjects:	Seltzer, Margo Software libraries (Computer programming) Database design Sleepycat Software Inc. Acquisition of data Open source software Women college teachers Bostic, Keith
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost

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Summary:	An interview with lecturer Margo Seltzer is presented which addresses topics such as the motivations behind the creation of the Berkeley DB database software library by Seltzer, Keith Bostic, and Mike Olson. The Sleepycat Software firm and fundraising are assessed, as well as open-source dual licenses, data provenance, and collections of certain types of data.