June 19, 2002
8:52 p.m.
What does it have to do with the city of Berkeley (CA)? Perhaps "sleepycat"?
The company Sleepycat calls this particular product Berkeley DB, that's enough reason for me. They (may) have other products too, so Sleepycat is not sufficiently distinctive. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)