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Can closed source survive?

The interview with Dave Dargo, chief technology officer at Ingres, had a provocative headline: "Ingres predicts the end of open source."But the story itself was even more provocative. What Dargo was saying is that open source is going to become the norm. Just as we no longer talk about e-commerce,...

Tags: Dargo, Ingres, Dave Dargo

Blog posts 2006-03-21

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Ellison's Red Hat hijacking maneuver

I was talking to Goldman Sachs sage Rich Sherlund about Oracle's move to basically hijack Red Hat's Linux by rolling its own binary distro based on Red Hat and starting a support price war that Oracle can win. Rick said that "Larry is driving now," and didn't want to end...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Red Hat Inc.

Blog posts 2006-10-25

A database without an operating system?

Not really. But as far as customers can tell, maybe.rPath and Ingres have integrated a database and a Linux installation so it looks to the customer like a single install. The result is what rPath calls a "software appliance," and this concept is at the heart of rBuilder 2.0, which...

Tags: Ingres, rPath

Blog posts 2006-08-15

What's driving open source?

The software market is evolving as more people participate in whatwas traditionally a closed and specialized industry. Dave Dargo ofIngres gives a brief history of this evolution and explains how opensource is becoming a natural part of the IT landscape.

Tags: open source

Whiteboards 2006-07-07

What's driving open source?

The software market is evolving as more people participate in what was traditionally a closed and specialized industry. Dave Dargo of Ingres gives a brief history of this evolution and explains how open source is becoming a natural part of the IT landscape.

Tags: open source, software market

Whiteboards 2006-07-07

Ingres has giant ambitions in enterprise IT

Ingres has become one of the hottest and most interesting companies in Silicon Valley. After its spin-off from Computer Associates in November to Garnett & Helfrich Capital, it has been assembling one of the top executive teams in the industry. And one with extensive experience at Oracle and other top...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Ingres

Blog posts 2006-03-22

Ingres CTO says Oracle will fail in bid to control open source

More fuel to the fire over attempts to control open source by Oracle (and others?). I had an interesting chat with Jim Finn, the comms head of Ingres--currently the hottest open source database enterprise software company. Mr Finn was recently head of IBM's North Americas communications group, and about...

Tags: Oracle Corp.

Blog posts 2006-03-01

Commercializing open source--make it transparent

Commercialization of open source--and Oracle's recent foray into acquiring open source components--was a major theme at the Open Source Business Conference. During a panel on the topic, Ken Jacobs, vice president of product strategy for servers, proclaimed that commercialization is not only beneficial but inevitable. Oracle has recently been on...

Tags: Ken Jacobs, open source

Blog posts 2006-02-16

Open source database wars begin

Web 2.0 start-ups have a hidden vulnerability. They all rely on the same database, mySQL.Now mySQL is a nice little database. But can it scale as these projects become "enterprise class?" And what of Oracle's buying key mySQL tools, like InnoDB?Those are interesting questions, and Dave Dargo says he has...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Ingres, Dave Dargo

Blog posts 2005-11-07