I have spoken with Wolfgang quite a while ago about this, and he expressed potential interest in becoming a lead for the project.
Issues: -potential mismatch in goals -upfront effort involved in merging. I was left with the impression that, if dedicated help was provided on the part of xindice, the projects could be merged together. All active exist committers would of course need to be inducted into the new project. As you may be able to tell, I would be *very* interested in seeing this become a reality. -Kevin Ross -----Original Message----- From: Kimbro Staken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 12:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: AW: Should Xindice be retired? On Dec 4, 2003, at 3:22 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It seems to me that there simply is not sufficient demand / > interest in native XML databases nor enough interested > programming talent to support very many open source xml > database projects. Clearly demand isn't huge, however it is increasing. Having more mature projects available helps considerably. > > Have the key players from Xindice and eXist ever gotten > together to talk about the possibility of combining efforts? > About how to perhaps leverage the best ideas (and even code) > from each into a common project, so that all interested talent > could be focused together? I don't remember ever discussing merging, though Wolfgang and I did briefly discuss working together on certain features. XQuery in particular, nothing ever came of it. > > I did not include dbXML in this since it sounds like priamrily > a commerical effort, and I don't know if there could be any > potential for Berkeley DB XML to be merged also...I get the Berkeley DB XML can also be considered to have a commercial orientation since it's really a Sleepycat product that just happens to be available under an open source license. > impression that their approach / purpose (embedded) is too > different. But eXist and Xindice seem to cry for unification... Probably so, but I think there's little motivation for eXist to do it. > > Kimbro Staken Software, Consulting and Writing http://www.xmldatabases.org/ Apache Xindice native XML database http://xml.apache.org/xindice XML:DB Initiative http://www.xmldb.org
