I agree with you people. Good soil to till.
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Jamison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, July 15, 2001 1:29 PM
Subject: Re: Project idea
>Cory L Hubert wrote:
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>> I think it's time for it as well. Oracle, DB2, Sybase are planning on
>>cashing in even bigger now. The .com crazy is over and people are going
to
>>start to develop and market information rich websites and services that
>>reach out to cell phones/PDA's etc.
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>> There hasn't been much innovation going on in the Relational DB world.
>>It'd be nice to see an Open Source project catch up, innovate, and
>>outperform the Big Name DB vendors.
>> An Open Source java DB by a trusted Open Source Name (Apache) would allow
>>anyone to have a high end database solution without being a big money
making
>>enterprise.
>>
>> Obviously I think this is a good idea. Why don't we create a list for
>>Open Source DB's to evaluate? Also some criteria.
>> I've already mentioned.
>>
>> 1. Object or Object/Relational DB.
>> 2. Support for SQL/OQL
>> 3. Support for the SUN JDO spec.
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: David Duddleston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2001 11:58 PM
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: RE: Project idea
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>>There is a pretty good Java SQL Relational DB called Mckoi, but the darn
>>thing is GPL and I have sent about 6 emails trying to get them to change
the
>>license to an ASL or equivalent, but I have had no luck. They won't even
>>change to LGPL.
>>
>>hsql Database on sourceforge has a good license and works well for small
>>projects, but I don't know if I would trust it for anything important.
>>Hopefully it will pick up some momentum.
>>
>>I know Jetspeed (a Jakarta project) uses Hypersonic SQL (now hsql
Database),
>>or at least used it the last time I check which was a long time ago. I
would
>>love to see a solid Java RDBMS under a business friendly license. Maybe
>>someday ;-)
>>
>>-david
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Tal Dayan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>>Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2001 5:11 PM
>>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>Subject: Project idea
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>>>Does Jakarta has anything close to an embedded pure Java
>>>relational data base ?
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>>>If not, a project like that will be a great
>>>addition to the Jakarta family.
>>>
>>>
>>>Tal
>>>
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>Hey, maybe take a look at
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>http://www.lutris.com/products/projects/instantDB
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>They have been hinting about making it open for a
>long time now, and maybe they could use some
>help doing so.
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