“IBM’s donation to the open source community of the Cloudscape
database source code may not be as altruistic as Big Blue may lead
you to believe. Analysts agree it’s a generous move, but add that
anything that bolsters the Java development community also gives
IBM’s WebSphere a boost.“IBM announced last week at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo
that it had released the source code to the Java-based relational
database to the Apache Software Foundation, which would license it
under the Apache Software License. Developers now have easy access
to a Java-based database they can embed in Java applications and
ensure tighter interoperability than with other external data
stores…”