Yes, I believe Interbase might fit this description
Borland open-sourced Interbase in 2000, but then bought it back in-house. The OS code was forked and became Firebird (aside - Firefox was originally called Firebird, but changed names after the name clash with Firebird db was realised)
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Yes, I believe Interbase might fit this description
Borland open-sourced Interbase in 2000, but then bought it back in-house. The OS code was forked and became Firebird (aside - Firefox was originally called Firebird, but changed names after the name clash with Firebird db was realised)
Interbase http://www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase
Firebird http://firebirdsql.org