Thanks Jacopo,
So a good (Groovy) and a maybe bad news in the same day :/
Let's hope a Derby selling company will exist. Despite some seem to believe,
there is no free lunch, only open source...
Jacques
Le 04/03/2015 08:33, Jacopo Cappellato a écrit :
FYI
Begin forwarded message:
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])
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