>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/
Suddenly, Hypersonic SQL http://www.hsqldb.org/ (which also works
wonderfully for small databases - nobody would claim that these can
scale like PostgreSQL)
has a bunch of competition.
Dan
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Daniel Armbrust
Biomedical Informatics
Mayo Clinic Rochester
daniel.armbrust(at)mayo.edu
http://informatics.mayo.edu/