[Offtopic] InstantDB to be Open Source!

[Robin Green <gr...@hotmail.com>]

I know this is offtopic, but it must be quite common to use a database with 
Cocoon, so I thought people would be interested in this news:

I just went to http://instantdb.co.uk/ today to routinely read the manual, 
and was redirected to this:

http://instantdb.enhydra.org/

InstantDB has been bought by Lutris (sponsors of Enhydra) and they are 
promising to make it open source. As far as I know it will be the world's 
only open source, pure Java, production-quality (i.e. not alpha or beta) 
RDBMS publicly available. This is excellent news! The license will be an 
MPL-style-license:

http://instantdb.enhydra.org/software/license/index.html

so as far as I can see (IANAL) it will even allow certain kinds of 
proprietary derived works (like the Apache Software Foundation license, 
unlike the GPL).

Oracle won't be trembling in their boots _just_ yet - InstantDB just isn't 
in the same class. Not yet, anyway... but who knows what the future might 
hold? ;)

--
Robin

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Re: [Offtopic] InstantDB to be Open Source!

[Stefano Mazzocchi <st...@apache.org>]

Robin Green wrote:
> 
> I know this is offtopic, but it must be quite common to use a database with
> Cocoon, so I thought people would be interested in this news:
> 
> I just went to http://instantdb.co.uk/ today to routinely read the manual,
> and was redirected to this:
> 
> http://instantdb.enhydra.org/
> 
> InstantDB has been bought by Lutris (sponsors of Enhydra) and they are
> promising to make it open source. As far as I know it will be the world's
> only open source, pure Java, production-quality (i.e. not alpha or beta)
> RDBMS publicly available. This is excellent news! The license will be an
> MPL-style-license:
> 
> http://instantdb.enhydra.org/software/license/index.html
> 
> so as far as I can see (IANAL) it will even allow certain kinds of
> proprietary derived works (like the Apache Software Foundation license,
> unlike the GPL).
> 
> Oracle won't be trembling in their boots _just_ yet - InstantDB just isn't
> in the same class. Not yet, anyway... but who knows what the future might
> hold? ;)

That's -great- news.

As soon as I grab it, I'll do a cocoon distribution that runs with SQL
support out of the box, how could would that be? :-)

Of course, you're free to use whatever database you like... but total
portability is _always_ good, isn't it?

-- 
Stefano Mazzocchi      One must still have chaos in oneself to be
                          able to give birth to a dancing star.
<st...@apache.org>                             Friedrich Nietzsche
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