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Cloudscape Gains Momentum

Posted by Hemos on from the ibms-big-move dept.

A reader writes: "There's been a lot of bits written recently about the growth of Open Source databases; as well as IBM's patent gift, as their release of the Java database Cloudscape. There's a contest running on SourceForge.net around Cloudscape; download and run with it." SF.net is part of OSTG, like Slashdot.

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  1. Java database ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny


    wouldn't it be quicker to print your data on paper and sort it by hand ?

  2. Spelling mistake in submission by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    The submitter mispelt 'cynical ploy' as 'patent gift', wake up editors.

  3. Arrrrghh! by Moe+Yerca · · Score: 3, Funny

    You bastards! Thanks for cutting my chances of winning an iPod down 100x.

  4. Re:2 points you are wrong on. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Java VM's can out-perform cpp over n cycles, where n is sufficient to overcome Java start times (seconds)

    Yes, and a well-supplied tortoise can out-distance a rocket over n years, where n is much longer than the rocket's burn time :/