Andrew Oliver wrote:
That was in response to the idea that they hold it back a version. (I have not verified that). I did find the "have to register for the JDBC driver" to be a bit of an annoying feature.
After reading some more on the Derby site and ibm.com, I can't find anything to indicate that they did hold back a version. If anything, I came away with the impression that Derby is indeed going to be essentially equivelant to the latest commercial release.
Specifically, look at this from the "Why did IBM Open-Source Cloudscape" page:
********************************************************************** Q: What's the difference between the open source and IBM commercial version?
A: We've contributed the Cloudscape code to the Apache Software Foundation [ASF]. The project at Apache is called "Derby" and future commercial versions of IBM Cloudscape will be based on the Derby code base.
Derby is an incubator project, the usual way external projects become a part of the ASF. But developers can contribute to and download the code under the Apache license now, and we are actively working with our partners and Apache to grow and build the community working on Derby.
For our Cloudscape product, IBM will take snapshots of the Derby code and provide full support as the IBM Cloudscape offering. You can get a free download of the IBM Cloudscape code as well, and you can purchase support for it from IBM, but we do not intend to charge a license fee for Cloudscape.
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TTYL,
Phil -- North Carolina - First In Freedom
Free America - Vote Libertarian www.lp.org
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