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IBM Donates Java Database App. to Apache Foundation

Posted by michael on from the have-a-nice-steaming-cup dept.

the_pooh_experience writes "IBM has announced that it will open up Cloudscape by giving it to the Apache Software Foundation. Cloudscape, a small footprint Java database, is primarily used for small scale websites and point-of-sale systems. Its new, opensource name will be 'Derby.' Cloudscape (originally created by Informix, and purchased by IBM in 2001) has been valued by IBM at $85M."

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  1. Value by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "...has been valued by IBM at $85M."

    Now, it's free, so it's worthless.

  2. Re:Database written in Java? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't want to be a Java troll or anything

    Well, I hate to be the one to break it to you...

  3. Registration Required Link by Patrick+Lewis · · Score: 2, Funny

    Here is the registration required link. Don't even think you can pull that "parnter=rssuserland" crap around here, buddy.

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    "If I am such a genius, how come that I am drunk and lost in the desert with a bullet in my ass?" --Otto (Malcom ITM)
  4. 503 Service Unavailable by stavrosfil · · Score: 4, Funny

    Great!!!

    Maybe slashdot can used it to stop the 503 errors :)

  5. "Open Source Name"? by ceeam · · Score: 4, Funny

    Good thing it's Derby and not Firebird.

    Anyway - why bother renaming and what is "Open Source Name"?

  6. Re:MySql Competition? by NineNine · · Score: 5, Funny

    MySQL is definitely ready for heavy loads

    You're right. After all, it performs so well for Slashdot...

  7. Re:Better than Slashdot. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Didn't you hear, Slashdot is now running on Windows Advanced Server 2003 with a SQL Server cluster. Yay, IIS!

  8. Re:Anybody used it? by Brando_Calrisean · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just like my Honda Civic is no match for a Formula 1 Racecar, right?

    Come on, this was modded 'Informative'?

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  9. Re:MySql Competition? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Rather than MSDE, wouldn't it be more of a hit against Microsoft's SQL Server 2005 Express that they released to beta a month or so ago..... ;)

  10. Ownership in Question by Bob(TM) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't touch it with a 10 foot pole - it is most likely tainted!

    Any moment now, I'm sure we'll hear how SCO (through an ownership rationalization chain that will make Rube Goldberg pack his bags and head to the nether regions of shame) actually owns this (without having actually coded a bloody thing) and that IBM has no rights to give away anything it developed.

    Save yourself the grief, expense, and the ensuing barrage of Slashdot rants about SCO! Just say 'NO'.

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    The little guy just ain't getting it, is he?
  11. Re:NYT by 13Echo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Heh. I already did. It then dawned on me after I sent it that I must actually be one of those "opensource zealots" that everyone talks about.

    I guess that I never thought I'd take software licensing so seriously. ;)

    Don't worry. The response was informative and well-mannered (for coming from an opensource zealot). ;)