Army wrote: > For no apparent reason whatsoever I just decided to type "open source > database" (without the quotes) into Google to see what I would get. > > To my incredible surprise Apache Derby didn't even make the top 20 pages > of the results. There were a lot of other databases that I've never > heard of before, a reference to Sun's Java DB on page two, and a > reference to "Derby" on a Cloudscape site on page five. But that was > it. I didn't bother looking beyond the first 20 pages. > > I then went to the Apache Derby homepage > (http://db.apache.org/derby/index.html) and did a text search for > "open". Of all the pages that are "tabbed" at the top of the home page > (Home, Quick Start, Download, Community, Documentation, Resources) only > two had the phrase "open source" on them--and one of those was actually > part of DOTS ("Database Open Source Test Suite"). > > This doesn't necessarily mean anything, but it was so unexpected (to me > anyways) that I thought I'd mention it.
hhhmmmmm, do you see this page show up anywhere in the hits? http://projects.apache.org/projects/derby.html it says "Apache Derby is an open source relational database implemented entirely in Java. ...." I can add "open source" to the basic definition on the home page at http://db.apache.org/derby/index.html . I'd be curious to see if google will then pick it up. -jean > Feel free to ignore. > Army >
