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Derby Source Code Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-hack-on dept.

Matt Rosenberger writes "Over a month ago, IBM donated the source code to Cloudscape (now dubbed Derby) to the Apache Software Foundation. Last week, the Apache Incubator Project released a snapshot of the source code to Derby. Derby is an open-source embedded database written in Java."

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  1. Re:java by Tomahawk · · Score: 3, Informative

    More info on this here.

    It's called JIT, or Just In Time, compilation. Wanted to verify this name before I added it into a comment - I really shouldn't doubt myself.

    T.

  2. Cloudscape history by Kardamon · · Score: 4, Informative

    Cloudscape Inc was founded in 1996 and acquired by Informix Corp in september 1999. IBM got Cloudscape in 2000 when it bought Informix.

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