Steve Howard wrote:
> Laurenz Albe wrote:
>> Steve Howard <stevedhoward_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Raga wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there any freeware/shareware tool to help in migrating from Oracle
>>>>>> to Derby ?
>>>>> If there were, I doubt an Oracle newsgroup would be the place to find
>>>>> it. Try one of the Apache groups.
>>>> If the question is oracle related why this newsgroup is probably as
>>>> good a place as any to ask.
>>>>
>>>> What is Derby?
>>> It is an RDBMS written exclusively in java under the apache project
>>> umbrella.
>> 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.
>>
>> Yours,
>> Laurenz Albe
>
> That's interesting. Do you know why they released it as open source?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
Same reason CA released Ingres as open source. It is a product in a
death spiral.
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Received on Sun Jun 11 2006 - 15:59:28 CDT
