| IBM plays open source card in middleware |
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IBM’s open-sourcing of its Cloudscape database announced earlier this month points to a deeper strategy to gain control of the middleware space at Microsoft’s expense.
Cloudscape is a 2MB embeddable full-functioned relational database which does not require a database administrator to manage. It was acquired along with IBM’s billion-dollar buyout of Informix in 2001.
Now IBM has handed over “Derby”, a copy of Cloudscape, to the Apache Software Foundation to build a community of users around it, and in the process make Cloudscape the de facto standard for embedded databases.
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