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December 15, 2004
Cloudscape Contest
IBM and SourceForge are sponsoring a contest in which people download the Clouscape DB, use it in a Java program along with SQL to find a hidden word and submit that word in order to enter the contest. Ten winners will get iPods.
While I did write the program and enter the contest (kind of a neat exercise), I also figured out that the Cloudscape installation comes with a sample program that will allow anyone to run SQL on any Cloudscape database. Therefore, anyone can run a few lines of SQL in this sample program, figure out what the hidden word is and enter the contest without writing any Java code. I guess the whole point of the contest is to learn Cloudscape, so even if you entered the contest this way they still got their point across. It is interesting to me that IBM is pushing Cloudscape like this when it recently open sourced the whole project as Apache Derby.
IBM Cloudscape V10.0 is a pure, Open Source-based Java relational database management system that can be embedded in Java programs and used for online transaction processing (OLTP). A platform-independent, small-footprint (2MB) database, Cloudscape V10.0 integrates tightly with any Java-based solution.
Posted by Chuck at December 15, 2004 08:23 PM
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