With Oracle Corp.’s purchase last week of open-source embedded software maker SleepyCat Software Inc., at least one security analyst believes that Oracle -- which has come under fire for security vulnerabilities in its core database -- could be adding more potential problems. SleepyCat’s BerkeleyDB database has been deployed more than 200 million times, according to London-based research firm Ovum Ltd. Those deployments range from network routers and cell phones to business applications and popular Web sites.

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