IBM Donates Java Database App. to Apache Foundation 261
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."
Value (Score:5, Funny)
Now, it's free, so it's worthless.
Re:Database written in Java? (Score:2, Funny)
Well, I hate to be the one to break it to you...
Registration Required Link (Score:2, Funny)
503 Service Unavailable (Score:4, Funny)
Maybe slashdot can used it to stop the 503 errors
"Open Source Name"? (Score:5, Funny)
Anyway - why bother renaming and what is "Open Source Name"?
Re:MySql Competition? (Score:5, Funny)
You're right. After all, it performs so well for Slashdot...
Re:Better than Slashdot. (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Anybody used it? (Score:2, Funny)
Come on, this was modded 'Informative'?
Re:MySql Competition? (Score:2, Funny)
Ownership in Question (Score:2, Funny)
Any moment now, I'm sure we'll hear how SCO (through an ownership rationalization chain that will make Rube Goldberg pack his bags and head to the nether regions of shame) actually owns this (without having actually coded a bloody thing) and that IBM has no rights to give away anything it developed.
Save yourself the grief, expense, and the ensuing barrage of Slashdot rants about SCO! Just say 'NO'.
Re:NYT (Score:3, Funny)
I guess that I never thought I'd take software licensing so seriously.
Don't worry. The response was informative and well-mannered (for coming from an opensource zealot).