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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. Database written in Java? by tpgp · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't want to be a Java troll or anything - but a Database written in Java?

    Sounds sloooooooooooow to me.

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  2. Re:Anybody used it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    No match for real databases like Oracle or DB2.

    It's one of those components that gets installed alongside with the important stuff and then later on it's nice if someone bothers to remove it.

  3. No competition, way overpriced. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is no competition to postgresql or any other RDBMS. This is akin to DBD::XBase or something; an SQL parser modifying flat files for script kiddies that write cheap websites for the grocer's next door who can't have an RDBMS from their geocities account. The face that IBM sticks a pricetag on it of 85 million is ridiculous. If that's the real price, then why is Jochen Wiedmann (the author of DBD::CSV) not a multi-millionaire ?

  4. hmmm... by stavrosfil · · Score: -1, Troll

    It sounds like some people or companies are confusing open-source with trash bin ;)

  5. OEmg!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    OeMG teh micnorsoft googel is attaxing Teh Slashd0t!

  6. har, har by Leffe · · Score: 0, Troll

    Cloudscape (originally created by Informix, and purchased by IBM in 2001) has been valued by IBM at $85M

    My notepad clone has been valued by me at $186M!!

  7. Re:Tax Reduction? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    haha. I agree with him - ibm softwares sux and are d00med to fail. they should sticks to hardwares. just cuz they have it and ship it in their crappy softwares doesn't makes it good or alive. go mod yershelfs.