On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 09:24 +0200, Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany wrote: > Hi John, > > >>It seems like Sun is wanting to use Derby as the DB engine for future > >>Java products. I just wanted to bring it up in case of there is any > >>change in tack from Sun management/engineer for the embedded java DB > >>that OOo has in v2. > > > > Folks - any comment please? > > OpenOffice.org's database engine is HSQLDB. The fact that OpenOffice.org > is sponsored in large parts by Sun Microsystems doesn't mean that we now > will switch to Derby. Honestly, I think we need to be *reliable* for our > users, and changing a database engine with every few releases is > something I wouldn't call "reliable". So, as much as I, as a Sun > employee, consider this unfortunate to some extent (maybe if we would > have known much earlier, the decision for our database engine would have > been different - I don't know, I don't have solid opinion on Derby, > yet), I don't see an immediate influence on OpenOffice.org Base. > > On the medium term, I could imagine that OpenOffice.org will improve on > it's collaboration with Derby. On the long term, I could even imagine > that OpenOffice.org could ship with Derby, or something like that. > However, that's reading tea leaves. > > With OpenOffice.org 2.0 we decided to integrate HSQLDB, and I'm in *no* > way eager to drop this and start from scratch with Derby. > OpenOffice.org's database engine is HSQLDB, and will continue to be. > Perhaps not for ever (I'm neither a politician nor an attorney, so you > will never hear me saying "never" :), but assumedly for a time which > allows you, the users, to be *reliant* on the product. > > Ciao > Frank >
Frank - thanks for that - it's good to have on file. John --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
