Open Source Ingres for Linux

[William Park]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 09:21:49PM -0500, Francois Ouellette wrote:
> Hi gang,
> 
> Some of you may know this already, but if you are looking for an
> enterprise-class relational database product (with 30 years of market
> presence) CA has released Ingres to Open Source last year and it is
> now available to download for Linux and other platforms
> http://opensource.ca.com/projects/ingres/
> 
> I got it to run on FC3 and it is awesome, it comes with loads of
> development tools and gateways (JDBC included), and the PDF doc is
> also very comprehensive (same as the previous commercial releases). It
> comes as a bunch of rpm packages and the installation is really
> simple.  Those looking for something more robust than MySQL or
> Postgres, look no further!
> 
> Ingres has been my bread and butter for many years until CA bought it
> in the early 1990's and the product started losing its popularity and
> market presence. Now the Open Source project might open new horizons
> for a product that used to be at the leading edge of the RDBMS
> technology and was co-created by Mr relational technology himself,
> Michael Stonebreaker.
> 
> (I am not in any way related to CA, I am just passing the info).

I know zero about database or its history.  But, don't you think it's
rather late for Ingres?  It looks like no one is using it, and CA
obviously got nothing to lose by releasing to the public.

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