FYI
Begin forwarded message: > From: mike matrigali <[hidden email]> > Subject: Open letter to the Derby community > Date: March 3, 2015 at 11:04:34 PM GMT+1 > To: Derby Discussion <[hidden email]>, [hidden email] > Cc: Rick Hillegas <[hidden email]>, [hidden email] > Reply-To: "Derby Discussion" <[hidden email]> > > Hello Derby users, > > Those of you who also monitor postings on the derby-dev mailing list may have noticed a dramatic decline in activity over the past several months. That is because Derby's two corporate sponsors, Oracle and IBM, have significantly reduced their investment in Derby. > > Contributors do continue to monitor and field questions posted to the Derby mailing lists. Committers, in their spare time, do continue to help polish and commit patches which other contributors submit. Committers do continue to support contributions through the Google Summer of Code program. However, subsidized feature development and intensive bug-fixing have tapered off. > > Some committers would be happy to form a company which sells Derby support. Naturally, this depends on whether there is sufficient interest on the part of Derby users. If you are interested, then please contact Mike Matrigali and Rick Hillegas (see the email addresses cc'd above). Feel free to contact us even if your support requirements are tentative, future needs rather than immediate ones. > > We are sorry to be the bearers of this bad news. > > Best regards, > Mike Matrigali ([hidden email]) and Rick Hillegas ([hidden email]) > > -- > email: Mike Matrigali - [hidden email] > linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/MikeMatrigali > |
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Thanks Jacopo,
So a good (Groovy) and a maybe bad news in the same day :/ Let's hope a Derby selling company will exist. Despite some seem to believe, there is no free lunch, only open source... Jacques Le 04/03/2015 08:33, Jacopo Cappellato a écrit : > FYI > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: mike matrigali <[hidden email]> >> Subject: Open letter to the Derby community >> Date: March 3, 2015 at 11:04:34 PM GMT+1 >> To: Derby Discussion <[hidden email]>, [hidden email] >> Cc: Rick Hillegas <[hidden email]>, [hidden email] >> Reply-To: "Derby Discussion" <[hidden email]> >> >> Hello Derby users, >> >> Those of you who also monitor postings on the derby-dev mailing list may have noticed a dramatic decline in activity over the past several months. That is because Derby's two corporate sponsors, Oracle and IBM, have significantly reduced their investment in Derby. >> >> Contributors do continue to monitor and field questions posted to the Derby mailing lists. Committers, in their spare time, do continue to help polish and commit patches which other contributors submit. Committers do continue to support contributions through the Google Summer of Code program. However, subsidized feature development and intensive bug-fixing have tapered off. >> >> Some committers would be happy to form a company which sells Derby support. Naturally, this depends on whether there is sufficient interest on the part of Derby users. If you are interested, then please contact Mike Matrigali and Rick Hillegas (see the email addresses cc'd above). Feel free to contact us even if your support requirements are tentative, future needs rather than immediate ones. >> >> We are sorry to be the bearers of this bad news. >> >> Best regards, >> Mike Matrigali ([hidden email]) and Rick Hillegas ([hidden email]) >> >> -- >> email: Mike Matrigali - [hidden email] >> linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/MikeMatrigali >> > > |
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