Re: Migrating from Oracle to Derby

From: Laurenz Albe <invite_at_spam.to.invalid>
Date: 06 Jun 2006 13:18:30 GMT
Message-ID: <1149599909.181757@proxy.dienste.wien.at>

Steve Howard <stevedhoward_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> What is Derby?
>>
>> It is IBM's cloudscape released as open source.
>> I would recommend looking for an Oracle -> DB2 migration tool, because
>> for obvious reasons Derby is syntactibally and semantically very close
>> to DB2.

>
> That's interesting. Do you know why they released it as open source?

I don't know why they did it, but here is a link to IBM's explanation:

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/library/techarticle/dm-0410prial/

Yours,
Laurenz Albe Received on Tue Jun 06 2006 - 08:18:30 CDT