Well, yes and no... it's a little confusing. There's "Cloudscape," and then there's "Derby." Cloudscape, which has been around for years, begat Derby, which was released to Apache under the Apache license where it is in the Apache "incubator"... sort of a half-way house for incoming software. So Derby is open source, and source code is available under the Apache license v2.0.

Cloudscape is not open source, but the executable can be freely downloaded. Cloudscape is the IBM supported version... if you care about IBM support, you'd want this version. I believe they're doing it this way do they can control what they need to support.

-Rayme.


On Apr 2, 2005, at 12:34 AM, Phillip Rhodes wrote:

Cory Foy wrote:

You may also want to check out Cloudscape. We had a presentation on it and DB2 Everywhere last month (the powerpoint is on our site http://www.charjug.org) from IBM and it seemed to be pretty good. Not open source, but cheaper than full blown DB2.

Actually Cloudscape *is* open-source. IBM contributed the code to Apache and it's available now as the Apache Derby project.



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