Who said SCSL was an open source license? Very little about Java is open source. It's effectively a proprietary Sun technology, notwithstanding IBM JDK and so on...
Not that this is such a bad thing. There's something to be said for having a powerful vendor behind the technology, helping to make it useful and widespread. Java has become better supported by the industry than Perl, even though Java is only half as old.
Cheers!
Cloudscape is $99 for a deployment license, too, according to Informix's press release for Cloudscape 3.6 (2/20/2001). So you're not saving any money by switching to Cloudscape, unless you never deploy it, or if you plan to deploy anyway in violation of Informix's license.
Anyway, Lutris never did release the source of InstantDB, and they never made an official statement any stronger than a vague intention to release the source of InstantDB. They own InstantDB, and they have the right to do with it what makes sense for their business.
What some people overlook is that companies do own their software, they don't sell it to you, they license it to you for specific uses, with conditions. This is true of MS Windows, and Java, and InstantDB, and almost everything -- including most open source software!
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Who said SCSL was an open source license? Very little about Java is open source. It's effectively a proprietary Sun technology, notwithstanding IBM JDK and so on... Not that this is such a bad thing. There's something to be said for having a powerful vendor behind the technology, helping to make it useful and widespread. Java has become better supported by the industry than Perl, even though Java is only half as old. Cheers!
Cloudscape is $99 for a deployment license, too, according to Informix's press release for Cloudscape 3.6 (2/20/2001). So you're not saving any money by switching to Cloudscape, unless you never deploy it, or if you plan to deploy anyway in violation of Informix's license.
Anyway, Lutris never did release the source of InstantDB, and they never made an official statement any stronger than a vague intention to release the source of InstantDB. They own InstantDB, and they have the right to do with it what makes sense for their business.
What some people overlook is that companies do own their software, they don't sell it to you, they license it to you for specific uses, with conditions. This is true of MS Windows, and Java, and InstantDB, and almost everything -- including most open source software!