Open Source Ingres for Linux

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 06:38:18PM -0500, Francois Ouellette wrote:
> Lots of interesting details and points!
> 
> I have used and/or supported Ingres installations since 1985, so I might be
> a bit biased (aren't we all) on its technical capabilities compared to
> others.
> As interesting or capable MySQL and Postgres might be they were never
> developed to become commercially distributed products, so they were
> developed and enhanced in a differenc way that Ingres.

I thought there were commercial offerings of Postgres and I know MySQL
can be bought commercially.  Besides MS considers Access a commercial
product.

> For the technical part the complete doc and data sheets can be found here:
> http://opensource.ca.com/projects/ingres/documents
> 
> In a nutshell, I guess Ingres is like any other RDBMS and can be used where
> a relational data repository is required, on Linux and other platforms.
> What makes it unique for Open Source is that it started as a commercial
> product.
> It can accommodate small footprint systems (a couple of users on a small
> Linux box) as well as hundreds on a big-iron UNIX system.

Every other commercial product gone open source I can think of, has
taken years of work to try and clean of the crappy code base it had when
released.  Will this one be any different?

> I have supported Ingres database servers running 24x7 with 700 interactive
> users. I haven't seen too many Postgres or MySQL installations of that size!

I suspect there are people doing that.

Lennart Sorensen
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