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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Publicado en:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 66; no. 12; pp. 96 - 98
Autor principal:	Hoffmann, Leah
Formato:	Interview
Publicado:	Association for Computing Machinery Dec2023
Materias:	Seltzer, Margo Software libraries (Computer programming) Database design Sleepycat Software Inc. Acquisition of data Open source software Women college teachers Bostic, Keith
Acceso en línea:	Ver este registro en EBSCOhost

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Sumario:	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.