On Apr 18, 2009, at 4:13 PM, Roy Tennant wrote:
Domain Name:OSS4LIB.ORG
Created On:17-Nov-1999 23:05:50 UTC
That's just the domain. The site, and the list, went online in
roughly February 1999, based at yale. Wayback found out about it in
april:
I know the answer is yes, but does anyone care to speculate on the impact of
Oracle's takeover of Sun, which controls in addition to open source workhorse
JAVA, MySQL, OpenOffice, and Netbeans (all of which complete with proprietary
products from Oracle). I haven't heard anything quotable
On 04/20/2009 10:13 AM, Barnett, Jeffrey wrote:
I know the answer is yes, but does anyone care to speculate on the
impact of Oracle's takeover of Sun, which controls in addition to open
source workhorse JAVA, MySQL, OpenOffice, and Netbeans (all of which
complete with proprietary products from
Barnett, Jeffrey writes:
I know the answer is yes, but does anyone care to speculate on the
impact of Oracle's takeover of Sun, which controls in addition to
open source workhorse JAVA, MySQL, OpenOffice, and Netbeans (all of
which complete with proprietary products from Oracle). I
The user community for these products is WAY bigger than code4lib,
naturally. If Oracle manages to mess them up, then the user community
will fork, or migrate to different products, and we will follow.
Fortunately we are not alone here, there are giant communities formed
around these open
IBM has an RDBMS horse in the OSS race (Called Derby). It doesn't seem to
have much of a following. I imagine they must have forseen the possiblity of
an Oracle takeover when they broke off their own acquisition proposal earlier
this (?last) year. I agree there is probably more to come.
On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 11:29 -0400, Barnett, Jeffrey wrote:
IBM has an RDBMS horse in the OSS race (Called Derby). It doesn't seem to
have much of a following.
Heh. So, IBM bought Informix, contributed an overhauled version of
Informix Cloudscape to Apache as Apache Derby, and then mostly
Dan Scott wrote:
In the context of the Oracle-Sun and MySQL/OpenOffice/yada yada parent
thread, Derby demonstrates that a software project can 1) go from
proprietary to open source, 2) be contributed to by (in some ways)
direct competitors, and once it is open source 3) lose commercial
support
I don't know if there is anything that can be done about it, but if
anyone is interested, I've set up a Facebook group opposing the merger.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=91044005659
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David Cloutman dclout...@co.marin.ca.us
Electronic Services Librarian
Marin County Free Library
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Cloutman, David wrote:
I don't know if there is anything that can be done about it, but if
anyone is interested, I've set up a Facebook group opposing the merger.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=91044005659
I doubt that joining a facebook group is going to
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Dan Scott dsc...@laurentian.ca wrote:
I hear there's at least one good book about Apache Derby out there,
although it's rather dated now...
I have a copy. Signed by one of the authors!
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