IBM Makes Cloudscape Open Source
By LinuxProNews
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Article Date: 2004-08-03
In comments at the LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco IBM says it is making its Java-based Cloudscape database open source. It will be releasing it to the Apache Software Foundation.
IBM stated they are releasing Cloudscape to the ASF "to spur more communal innovation for Java application development,".
Paul Rivot, director of database servers for IBM Software commented, "We're shipping it off to the ASF for testing and will license it back, package it up and sell it primarily for support and service," .
"It's not earthshaking but a logical step for IBM to take with this particular technology," said Mike Gilpin, vice president of Forrester Research, Cambridge, Mass. "They've shown with other techs that in Java it can be helpful to bring in intellectual capacity of the open source community to help technologies grow. Any time it's a more commoditized technology, where it's not where IBM wants to differentiate, it makes sense to do thisand I think you'll see more of this approach not only by IBM but other companies as well."
IBM Software acquired Cloudscape (codenamed Derby) in its purchase of the Informix database business in 2001.
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