A good thing for the free software community (Score 2)

I got a hint on what SAP wanted to do several months ago (they made an extensive release plan for open-sourcing the stuff) and I like it since the first day I heard of it. The best of all, often forgotten, is that they DID USE the GPL, and not try to invent their own type of free software license, which usually creates only troubles ... The software itself is really usable (instead of it was with that Mozilla stuff) and has almost anything that you will need ... jdbc, perl, python, php, a fat windows client and a web admin, pl/sql support ... and despite the fact they are selling support - they have a very good mailing list - answers are given usually very quickly and directly by the development staff ... shortly speakin' --- its great stuff, and actively maintained. NB: As I heard some time ago, ADABAS (the thing SAPDB came from) was originally a research project before it went commercial at Software AG. Anyone know more of this is true?