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Why IBM Open Sourced Cloudscape

Posted by timothy on from the it-just-verbed-right dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A common and a consistent framework for accessing information enables developers to do more things with more people more often. This article shares how Derby fits into IBM's developer strategy, the Java application stack, its intention to drive more innovation around Java on Linux, and why they want to make the Derby database become as ubiquitous as the Apache HTTP server." (Derby is the new name for the project based on the formerly commercial Cloudscape database.)

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  1. Re:All this talk... by salvorHardin · · Score: 1, Funny
    Please, dear god, no!

    If OS/2 gets open-sourced, it might encourage people to install it. Think of the suffering!

    I sort through my snail mail and crack open the BOFH Monthly Newsletter, "kill -9" and check out the articles therein. There's a nice peice on making OS/2 slow, boring and painful, but it looks exactly like the OS/2 installation instructions to me...

    BOFH 11
  2. A common and a consistent framework by happyfrogcow · · Score: 2, Funny

    A common and a consistent framework does nothing but open the road for coding style and indenting arguments.