Tom Bradford, Chief Architect of the dbXML Group,
answered a question
from
Laurent Bossavit, who had noticed that:
"The home page of dbXML (at
http://www.dbxml.org/)
recently changed to a 'teaser'
announcement
of a
forthcoming commercial product."
Bradford declared
that the open source XML data server was:
"now part of a commercial venture. We're
trying to keep it (at least the core of it) BSD-licensed for
our 1.0 release, and far as our parent company is concerned,
they're perfectly
okay with that."
Bossavit observed that this, taken in the context of
Object Design's renaming to eXcelon Corp, is another sign
that "XML database servers" are likely to become a
significant market segment.