When Oracle bought Berkeley DB provider Sleepycat Software early this year, some feared the open source database maker’s product — and the entire open source database market — might be at risk. Now, however, Oracle is winning praise for a hands-off approach that has resulted in its first update to the database, Berkeley DB v4.5, made available this week. Oracle is touting improved performance, availability and ease-of-use for both commercial and open source software developers.





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