Re: Java DB open for business under new management

2010-02-06 Thread Peter Ondruška 
Nice history: Cloudscape, then acquired by Informix, then IBM,
opensourced, Sun, now Oracle :-))

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Rick Hillegas richard.hille...@sun.com wrote:
 Hi everyone,

 There seem to be a lot of rumors flying around now that Sun is a wholly
 owned subsidiary of Oracle. I want you to know that the Java DB team will
 continue to contribute to Derby just as we've been doing for the last five
 years.

 Cheers,
 -Rick

Re: Java DB open for business under new management

2010-02-06 Thread David Van Couvering 
You may not know that the original founders of Cloudscape came from Sybase -
a mortal enemy of Oracle.  Rick was one of those Sybase folks - and now he
works for the Evil Empire.  Spooky! :)

David

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Peter Ondruška peter.ondru...@gmail.comwrote:

 Nice history: Cloudscape, then acquired by Informix, then IBM,
 opensourced, Sun, now Oracle :-))

 On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Rick Hillegas richard.hille...@sun.com
 wrote:
  Hi everyone,
 
  There seem to be a lot of rumors flying around now that Sun is a wholly
  owned subsidiary of Oracle. I want you to know that the Java DB team will
  continue to contribute to Derby just as we've been doing for the last
 five
  years.
 
  Cheers,
  -Rick
 




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