Jim Starkey (born January 6, 1949, in Illinois) is a database architect responsible for developing InterBase, the first relational database to support multi-versioning,[1] the blob column type, type event alerts, arrays and triggers.
[3] After graduating, Starkey worked at Computer Corporation of America on a research project to build a database machine for ARPAnet.
[4] Starkey's first major computer language was STOP, an assembler emulator written in 1965 and used by IIT for undergraduate instruction.
After leaving Interbase, Starkey began a series of attempts to productize innovative database technology, including Netfrastructure.
In 2000, Starkey founded Netfrastructure, Inc., a platform for web applications including a relational database, integrated search, a Java virtual machine, and a context-sensitive page generator.