On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 13:32 -0500, Dan Armbrust wrote: > >IBM have previously bought Informix (who bought Illustra, RedBrick, > >Cloudscape) .... None of those take- > >overs has led to a product actually surviving. > > > Thats not exactly true - Cloudscape was just given to Apache, and is now > opensourced under the name "Derby" > http://db.apache.org/derby/ Both the things we have said are true. IBM bought Informix, who had bought Cloudscape. *Then* they gave it away to Apache, since it is probably at about 4 years behind PostgreSQL at current development rates on PostgreSQL. Best Regards, Simon Riggs ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
