“The LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco last week
featured many interesting announcements. However, the show was at
least as noteworthy for its implications as for its actual news
announcements.“IBM Corp.’s announced transformation of its Cloudscape database
solution into an Open Source offering follows closely the
announcement of a similar transformation for Computer Associates
International, Inc. (CA)’s Ingres database solution. Between
Cloudscape and Ingres, Open Source developers now have multiple new
and powerful options for building more ‘enterprise-class’
solutions…”