Hello Ashish, I'm answering your mail in [email protected], which is the better place for this kind of discussions. This is a matter of scaling of sharing knowledge, since more people than us two could join us.
Please also reply to this mailing list. You can subscribe to it at http://dba.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectMailingListList, or read it via the mail/news-gateway at news.gmane.org. The answer to your question is in the document which you linked to - search for "Why not Cloudscape?". Basically, Cloudscape wasn't an option at the time we had to make the decision, because it was not really available at this time (except in some announcements and letters of intent). The fact that Sun chose Derby as backend for future Java products is a different story, which I'll comment in a different thread in [EMAIL PROTECTED], where this has been raised recently. Ciao Frank PS: there are people (including me :) who interpret UPPER CASE in written conversation as shouting, and thus impolite. It might increase the acceptance of your mails if you would refrain from shouting - thanks :) Ashish Ranjan wrote: > i read your article at > > http://dba.openoffice.org/miscellaneous/dba20.html > > Can you tell us why not Apache's Derby database with > Open Office Base? > 1. It has good licensing suitable for OpenOffice. > Hence can be shipped with Open Office itself. No issue > of licensing etc. in someparts like Hsql. > 2. It is based on rock solid stable efficient IBM > cloudscape. > 3. and according to > http://news.com.com/Apache+Derby+graduates+with+Sun+onboard/2100-7344_3-5818473.html > Sun Microsystem(apart from IBM,Apache) is already > backing Apache derby. Then why not start in that > direction. > 4. Small memory footprint like Hsql itself > > Even though it is pure java, but then hsql is also. So > if i have java, then oo shipped with derby can give > me better thing. > > ATLEAST APACHE DERBY CAN BE SHIPPED WITH OPEN OFFICE > 2 INBUILT, EVEN THOUGH YOU HAVE HSQL SUPPORT THERE > (WHICH CAN NOT BE SHIPPED WITH OO). ATLEAST THERE WILL > BE SOMETHING WHICH WE DO NOT NEED TO DOWNLOAD AND > INSTALL SEPARATELY IN EACH MACHINE. > > ANYWAY, I SIMPLY LOVE OPENOFFICE, AND I SIMPLY WANT > IT TO BECOME BETTER. > bye :-) > Ashish Ranjan > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > India > > > > ____________________________________________________ > Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > -- Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems Germany +49 / 040 23 646 500 StarOffice Database http://www.sun.com/staroffice ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
