Saw this: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1599309,00.asp "Computer Associates International Inc. will use its annual CA World user conference in Las Vegas on Monday to make a slew of open-source announcements, including establishing a new open-source foundation that will support Plone, an out-of-the-box content management system built on the free Zope Application server; unveiling a new open- source license, and placing a version of Ingres, CA's flagship DBMS, under it. " Anybody have any idea what is going on here?
On May 25, 2004, at 10:29 AM, Brian Sullivan wrote:
Saw this:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1599309,00.asp
"Computer Associates International Inc. will use its annual CA World user conference in Las Vegas on Monday to make a slew of open-source announcements, including establishing a new open-source foundation that will support Plone, an out-of-the-box content management system built on the free Zope Application server; unveiling a new open- source license, and placing a version of Ingres, CA's flagship DBMS, under it. "
Anybody have any idea what is going on here?
Doesn't the article tell you what is going on there..? jens
Anybody have any idea what is going on here?
Doesn't the article tell you what is going on there..?
I don't think the whole story is there-- the article ( and the news releases at www.ca.com and www.zope.org ) are very superficial at best. I was hoping for some insightful comments and information from people here. -- do you have any?
Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
Anybody have any idea what is going on here?
Doesn't the article tell you what is going on there..?
Yeah, with a sadly, but unsuprisingly, CA-slant of "big corporate helps poor struggling open source by putting RDB(woo!) into it" Anyone would think that Zope didn't have any RDB support before they came along, sheesh ;-) And I don't like the "open source, flat-file database, ZODB" comment. APE is PART of the ZODB, so they're not replacing it as they imply. So, CA open source a databsae that's loosing market share (Ingres - can anyone say m o z i l l a, although there's already SAPDB, MySQL and PostGres) and chuck a few thousand dollars to get a ZIngresDA and an APE schema for it to make it look like they have an open source story to compete with IBM's? Or am I just beign too cynical here? ;-) Chris - my poor de-muppeting stick is gonna be worn out before I even get to EPC -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk
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