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> From: mike matrigali <[email protected]> > Subject: Open letter to the Derby community > Date: March 3, 2015 at 11:04:34 PM GMT+1 > To: Derby Discussion <[email protected]>, [email protected] > Cc: Rick Hillegas <[email protected]>, [email protected] > Reply-To: "Derby Discussion" <[email protected]> > > Hello Derby users, > > Those of you who also monitor postings on the derby-dev mailing list may have > noticed a dramatic decline in activity over the past several months. That is > because Derby's two corporate sponsors, Oracle and IBM, have significantly > reduced their investment in Derby. > > Contributors do continue to monitor and field questions posted to the Derby > mailing lists. Committers, in their spare time, do continue to help polish > and commit patches which other contributors submit. Committers do continue to > support contributions through the Google Summer of Code program. However, > subsidized feature development and intensive bug-fixing have tapered off. > > Some committers would be happy to form a company which sells Derby support. > Naturally, this depends on whether there is sufficient interest on the part > of Derby users. If you are interested, then please contact Mike Matrigali and > Rick Hillegas (see the email addresses cc'd above). Feel free to contact us > even if your support requirements are tentative, future needs rather than > immediate ones. > > We are sorry to be the bearers of this bad news. > > Best regards, > Mike Matrigali ([email protected]) and Rick Hillegas > ([email protected]) > > -- > email: Mike Matrigali - [email protected] > linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/MikeMatrigali >
