SQLite Consortium Launches With Mozilla And
Symbian As Charter Members
Charlotte, North Carolina - December 12, 2007 - The SQLite
Consortium, a new membership association dedicated to maintaining
SQLite as a fully open and independent product, was formally
announced today. Mozilla and Symbian Ltd. have joined the SQLite
Consortium as charter members.
SQLite is a compact, high efficiency, high reliability, embeddable
SQL database engine. The source code to SQLite is in the public
domain and is available with no associated fees. SQLite is the
most deployed SQL database engine in the world and is currently
used in a wide range of commercial software products and
electronic devices from leading manufacturers. SQLite is found
today in many mobile phones, MP3 players, set-top boxes, and PCs.
The mission of the SQLite Consortium is to continue developing and
enhancing SQLite as a product that anyone may use without paying
royalties or licensing fees. Members of the SQLite Consortium
provide funding to enable this mission and in return receive
enterprise-level technical support. Technical control and
direction of SQLite remains entirely with the SQLite developers.
Mozilla, developer of the popular open-source Firefox web browser,
and Symbian, the market-leading open operating system for advanced
data-enabled smartphones, both deploy the SQLite database engine
in their products. As charter members of the Consortium, Mozilla
and Symbian are ensuring the development and support of SQLite as
a freely accessible and public domain software asset.
"SQLite has become a popular embedded database because it is
lightweight, fast, and open source," said Michael Schroepfer, Vice
President of Engineering, Mozilla. "As a charter member of the
SQLite Consortium, Mozilla is excited to help ensure SQLite
remains a vibrant and open technology, in line with our mission to
promote choice and innovation on the Internet."
"The SQLite Consortium will help set the standards for database
management which are essential in smartphone functionality and
will also help create a pool of developers, highly-skilled in
SQLite for future mobile phone development," said Bruce Carney,
Director, Developer Programmes & Services, Symbian. "Our
involvement with the SQL Consortium not only demonstrates
Symbian's commitment to open standards in the industry, but as
mobile phones become increasingly powerful and smartphones become
increasingly popular, we are focused on ensuring that desktop
developers, who move to the mobile space, have the easiest and
most productive experience possible."
Additional information is available at the SQLite website,
http://www.sqlite.org/.
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