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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