Preface

Executive Letter from Bob Picciano (Vice President of Database Servers, IBM)

Whether you are just starting with Apache Derby or you've been using the IBM Cloudscape offering for some time, what most people convey to me about this specific database product is admiration for the rich function and gratitude for the simplicity of deployment, management, and maintenance. As you'll read in this book, Apache Derby and IBM Cloudscape have been on an interesting evolutionary journey and the benefactors of the journey are those individuals who want to develop robust applications that require a true, full function, open source database, but want the simplicity and management characteristics of an embedded offering. Apache Derby is unique in its ...

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