History
The project was started in August 2002 at the Blackhat and DEF CON Conferences by several industry notables (including H. D. Moore, rain.forest.puppy, and others). Under mostly-new management, the database officially launched to the public on March 31, 2004.
The Open Security Foundation (OSF) was created to ensure the project's continuing support. Brian Martin (AKA Jericho), Chris Sullo (of Nikto fame), and Jake Kouns are project leaders for the OSVDB project, and currently hold leadership roles in the OSF. It is a client/server implementation that consists of a server daemon (mysqld) and many different client programs/libraries. It has a pluggable data store architecture
Read more about this topic: Open Source Vulnerability Database
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