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- Ingres brings OpenROAD tool for rapid DB apps development to GPL
- Ingres Corp. is hoping for strong community involvement with its Open ROAD rapid application development RAD tool by taking it to GPL v2 release. The Redwood City, Calif., open source database management company has made the new release available on its Web site and said it...
- Tags: GPL, Tool, Ingres, 4GL OpenROAD, OpenROAD Application, Databases, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- What does IBM mean for an open source start-up?
- What does IBM mean for an open source start-up?Minor correction: Ingres PostgresDana,Despite the common origins at Cal and similar names, Ingres and Postgres are different code bases. There's a good description of this at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostgreSQL. I appreciate your active coverage of the rebirth of openness in the...
- Tags: Databases, Ingres, open-source start-up, Postgres, open source, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-03-25
- PostgreSQL left out in database brouhaha
- PostgreSQL left out in database brouhahaTalk about bias ntntThe reason PosgreSQL is left out...Dana, I think the reason that you'll see PosgreSQL left out of the database brouhaha is because the conversation this week is focused on the enterprise. While PostgreSQL may have great adoption for deployment within the...
- Tags: Databases, PostgreSQL, Postgres, Ingres, database
- Discussion threads 2008-01-18
- What do the database deals mean?
- What do the database deals mean?Postgres is the future of...open source databases.YOu can bet that...Oracle and Sun will be looking for ways to make money on their acquisitions. The most obvious way would be to play games with the open source products such that using them would eventually steer...
- Tags: Databases, UNIX, Postgres, MySQL, open source, Sun Microsystems Inc., Ingres, PostgreSQL, database
- Discussion threads 2008-01-17
- Is Relational Relevant?
- Last week, some friends of mine from Ingres, the early relational database management system, attended a retrospective on relational database systems held at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley with other database pioneers from Oracle, Informix, IBM and Sybase. I was an early employee at Ingres which was the...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Information Management, Database
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- Live Webcast: Open or Closed? Why you need a strategy for open source in your organization
- Tough economic times call for a new approach to software development and demand that you find a better, faster, and more affordable way to develop new applications. Open source is the answer - much faster time to value, all the benefits of an on-demand business model, and speed of innovation....
- Tags: Strategy, Webcast, Ingres, Open Source
- Webcasts 2007-06-17
- Service Pack 2 for SQL Server arrives
- Service Pack 2 for SQL Server arrivesDump the expensive CRAPWARE from Microsoft, Experience the freedom of MySQLPostgreSQL, Ingres, etc. All much better products at a fraction of the cost to install and maintain. You can get world class service for any one of these databases.AWESOME.Some functionality that was in Maint....
- Tags: Databases, Enterprise software, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, service pack, Service Pack 2, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, database, server, Ingres, PostgreSQL
- Discussion threads 2007-02-20
- Market is expressly ready for a real, high-end OSS relational database
- Market is expressly ready for a real, high-end OSS relational databaseThe right direction to go inThe Wikipedia article is, correctly, highly critical of existing RDBMS implementations. The future is dropping SQL and delivering an RDBMS that actually implements the relational model properly.Wind and Americas Cup CompetitionFor Oracle to suck the...
- Tags: Databases, Wikipedia article, Oracle Corp., RDBMS, database, Ingres, IBM DB2, OSS
- Discussion threads 2006-08-22
- 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
- Ingres to play possum in mySQL hen house
- Ingres to play possum in mySQL hen houseIf you're not there is fantastic value in products MySQL and PostgresqlIf you're going to pay money and develop something there are many well used big name databases out there. If you're not there is fantastic value in products like MySQL and Postgresql.conversion...
- Tags: Databases, OPEN SOURCE, MySQL, Ingres, database
- Discussion threads 2006-04-25
- Ingres to play possum in mySQL hen house
- I know, it's correct to say Ingres chief architect Bill Maimone will be the fox in mySQL's henhouse, when he goes to their Santa Clara meeting tomorrow. But I have always had more trouble with opossums than foxes in raising my chickens, here in the urban jungle of Atlanta, and...
- Tags: Bill Maimone, MySQL, Ingres
- Blog posts 2006-04-25
- Ingres prepares for assault on Oracle's turf
- Ingres prepares for assault on Oracle's turfI hope them the best but ...... do not be surprised if within 3-5 years this same guy is announcing bankruptcy or firings, etc.Go Ingres Go !!!I bow down to the King of Databases. The creator of MySql and Postgres. Go get em!! I...
- Tags: Databases, Oracle Corp., Relational Model, Ingres, Postgres
- Discussion threads 2006-03-22
- 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 prepares for assault on Oracle's turf
- Ingres Chairman and CEO Terry Garnett looks at the estimated $18 billion spent on databases annually and sees a market ripe for disruption. In fact, he thinks Ingres can carve out 5- to 10-percent of that market, including a good chunk for Oracle's multibillion dollar enterprise database business. During the...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Ingres, Terry Garnett
- Blog posts 2006-03-22
- 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
- New rules: the mashup of business strategy and corporate comms
- There is mashup of business strategy and corporate communications occurring that some companies are using to their advantage, while others are stumbling upon this potent combination by accident or intuition.Let me give you some examples of what I mean:-Dan Scheinman is head of Cisco's mergers and acquisitions, and also he...
- Tags: Mr Nolan, comm, blogger, A-list
- Blog posts 2006-03-21
- Ingres CTO says Oracle will fail in bid to control open source
- Ingres CTO says Oracle will fail in bid to control open sourceOpen source business model1) Write software that competes with Big Company2) Get bought out by Big Company3) ProfitOops... wrong web-board for this post.
- Tags: Databases, Big company, open source, Ingres, Oracle Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-03-01
- 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
- Ingres: Is this the dark horse of the enterprise software pack?
- Ingres might be a small database software company, but it is one worth watching because it has attracted some large industry names to its team. And the outcome of its business strategy will be certain to influence many other enterprise software startups.On Tuesday, Ingres announced that Jim Finn joined Ingres...
- Tags: Ingres
- Blog posts 2006-01-11
- 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
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