Sounds like the story of HP Labs Smallbase (now Oracle TimesTen): "TimesTen was founded in HP labs by Marie-Anne Neimat, Sherry Listgarten, Kurt Shoens and Kev

Sounds like the story of HP Labs Smallbase (now Oracle TimesTen): "TimesTen was founded in HP labs by Marie-Anne Neimat, Sherry Listgarten, Kurt Shoens and Kevin Wilkerson, under the name of Smallbase" [0]. The you have that "Marie-Anne approached HP management about spinning out TimesTen as a separate company" [1]. Smallbase HP Labs publications (I couldn't find the originals) cited by [2]: ** “Smallbase API Reference Manual (Smallbase 4.1)”, Database Technology Department, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, April 1995. ** M. Heytens, S. Listgarten, M. Neimat, K. Wilkinson, “Smallbase: A Main-Memory DBMS for High-Performance Applications (Release 3.7)”, Database Technology Department, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, December 1994. -- [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TimesTen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TimesTen [1] https://www.fastcompany.com/3019296/44marie-anne-neimat https://www.fastcompany.com/3019296/44marie-anne-neimat [2] TPC-B on Smallbase and P21 -- https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/TPC-B-on-Smallbase-and-P21-Thomas-Batory/3ab2f457bae23ecf6e6b1d5434f5ad5f2b6ca971 https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/TPC-B-on-Smallbase-and...