Open Source Ingres for Linux

[Francois Ouellette]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Park" <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org>
To: <tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org>
Sent: Thursday, 10 March, 2005 23:48
Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Open Source Ingres for Linux
>
> 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.

Well, better late than never! Otherwise it would have been death by lack of
interest (and revenue $$$).
Since the product was getting no sale or interest, this could give it a
second life (sort of).

There are still many Ingres installations in the country (and elsewhere),
especially in the governments bodies.
CA has also bundled it with many of its products over the years as the
default data repository (including popular
things like JBoss) so many people use it without really knowing!

Linux is a recent port and was not a bad idea after all. Which other
software product with 30 years of history as an enterprise-class package do
we find in Open Source?

  François Ouellette
<fouellet-cpI+UMyWUv9BDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org>



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