Just the other week; I was asked to help validate an application database hosted
on a Mac, when I was introduced to the public domain database engine SQLite. To my surprise, it is actually the most deployed database engine in the world, since it is so small and used by
the likes of Skype, Mozilla, the iPhone/Apple, Symbian, PHP, Skype
amongst others. 
Development of SQLite is keep up thanks to a consortium made up of Mozilla,
Bloomberg, Adobe and Oracle.
In a Guest Editorial from Richard Morris, he describes how Dr Richard Hipp placed his tiny database in the
public domain with a wish that it be used without ever taking more than you
give.
And I thought I knew about databases…humbled again!
