"We expect object databases to become a universal solution for OO persistence -
with db4o's open source offering leading the charge."
Chris Lanfear, VDC
Company Information
Versant Corporation (Nasdaq:VSNT),
acquired the assets of the db4o object database business in Dec, 2008. Versant, went public in
1996 and is a industry leader in specialized data management software helping companies
to handle transactional database storage of complex object oriented information
in environments having stringent embedded or enterprise high performance, scalability
and availability requirements.
Versant sponsors the development, commercial licenses and support of db4o, the
open source object database. Driven by the world's
largest community of its kind, with 60,000 registered Java and .NET
developers and counting, db4o offers the ultimate persistence solution to store
objects of any complexity natively, with only one line of code.
Users and customers of db4o currently come from 170 different countries, from Albania to Zimbabwe,
and range from world class leaders like Boeing,
Bosch,
Intel,
Ricoh, and
Seagate to a wide range of highly innovative start-up companies.
The db4o project was started in 2000 by Chief Architect Carl Rosenberger, and first shipped in 2001. A loyal user community
of over 60,000 registered users has endorsed db4o from its earliest days and proved
it ready for mission-critical applications. The db4o product was commercially launch
in 2004. Today, db4objects has become one of the hottest technology innovators in
Silicon Valley boasting a wide range of mission critical applications and customers.
It is Versant's mission to give developers a choice when it comes to object persistence and thus make their
life a lot easier. To make db4o broadly available, Versant leverages the benefits of a world connected
through the Internet to create a culture that is agile and collaborative, open and global -- unlike few other
software companies.
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