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 <[email protected]>wrote: > Nice history: Cloudscape, then acquired by Informix, then IBM, > opensourced, Sun, now Oracle :-)) > > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Rick Hillegas <[email protected]> > 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 > > > -- David W. Van Couvering http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidvc http://davidvancouvering.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/dcouvering
