db4objects, Inc. Information

db4objects sponsors the development, commercially licenses and supports db4o, the open source object database. Driven by the world's largest community of its kind, with 50,000 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 db4objects 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. db4objects is a venture-backed company based in San Mateo, California. The company was incorporated in 2004 under CEO Christof Wittig, with the financial backing of top-tier Silicon Valley investors including Mark Leslie, founding CEO of Veritas, Vinod Khosla, founding CEO of Sun Microsystems, and Jerry Fiddler, founding CEO of Wind River, as well as Palo Alto-based Asset Management venture firm. The db4o project was started in 2000 by Chief Architect Carl Rosenberger, and first shipped in 2001. A loyal user community has endorsed db4o from its earliest days and proved it ready for mission-critical applications prior to its commercial launch in 2004. Today, db4objects has become one of the hottest technology innovators in Silicon Valley. It is db4objects' 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, db4objects 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.