A database written in Java? You gotta be kidding. They released Eclipse and plugins. Eclipse is an IDE made with Java. Maybe they released some atents for OSS use that related to DB2 that caused the confusion.
Brian Kelsay
"D. Hageman" dhageman@dracken.com 03/09/05 11:34AM >>>
Hmmm.... I doubt it. They released a database written in Java, but DB2 is IBM's answer to a database for the big iron.
A database written in Java? You gotta be kidding. They released Eclipse and plugins. Eclipse is an IDE made with Java. Maybe they released some atents for OSS use that related to DB2 that caused the confusion.
IBM did make a java db OS last year. The Database that IBM released is Cloudscape. It's a pretty cool product actually. It is written in java, and is embedded, if I'm using that term correctly. We used it for a school project a while back. It's just a small .jar file that you include and configure with your java app.
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/cloudscape/
Hmmm.... I doubt it. They released a database written in Java, but DB2 is IBM's answer to a database for the big iron.
DB2 is still IBM's flagship DB. Lots of DB2 engine development happens in Lenexa.
Matt
Ok, aparantly my brain concatenated "IBM Released a database to Open Source" with "DB2 is IBM's big deal". Thanks for the clarification.
There used to be a series of PC databases - DB II, DB III, DB IV. What ever happened to those?
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 5:09 pm, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
Ok, aparantly my brain concatenated "IBM Released a database to Open Source" with "DB2 is IBM's big deal". Thanks for the clarification.
Cloudscape is the java database that IBM oss'd (Apache 2 Lic)
There used to be a series of PC databases - DB II, DB III, DB IV. What ever happened to those?
Relational/Object DB's negated most of the need for them, SQLite would be a good example. The dbases's are still around, some utilities in linux let you read/convert from dbase formats.
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 05:25 pm, Bill Cavalieri wrote:
There used to be a series of PC databases - DB II, DB III, DB IV. What ever happened to those?
Relational/Object DB's negated most of the need for them, SQLite would be a good example. The dbases's are still around, some utilities in linux let you read/convert from dbase formats.
Oh, right, yeah, dBASE, now apparently on version 7.5, and still going at http://www.dbase.com . Some companies (AT&T) had a pretty big investment in it, I guess they've kept it going, but I don't see much demand for it in the job market.
Quoting Jonathan Hutchins hutchins@tarcanfel.org:
Ok, aparantly my brain concatenated "IBM Released a database to Open Source" with "DB2 is IBM's big deal". Thanks for the clarification.
There used to be a series of PC databases - DB II, DB III, DB IV. What ever happened to those?
I'm sorry to report that those are still alive and kicking... and screaming.
-- Dave Hull http://insipid.com
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Brian Kelsay wrote:
A database written in Java? You gotta be kidding. They released Eclipse and plugins. Eclipse is an IDE made with Java. Maybe they released some atents for OSS use that related to DB2 that caused the confusion.
Here is a link to one of the news articles about the java database.
http://www.crn.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=26805501&flatPage=true
A DB2 plugin for Eclipse does exist as well. It also supports the above database called "Derby".
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