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CA Advantage Ingres To Be Released As Open Source

Posted by timothy on from the a-place-for-your-stuff dept.

Bruce Perens writes "Computer Associates is releasing CA Advantage Ingres as Open Source under a variant of the Common Public License. The press release is here. This is a commercial fork of the public-domain University Ingres of the '80's, probably the first real relational database. CA's product added SQL and in general brought the program up to enterprise quality. So has the PostgreSQL project. It will be interesting to see if there can be any synergies between the two products. The BSD licensing on PostgreSQL would allow it." Here's an article at CRN on this and a few other open source moves announced today by CA; can anyone find a link to the text of CA's "Trusted Open Source License"? Related news, contributed by an semi-anonymous reader, is that CA has established "a new open-source foundation that will support Plone, the content management system built on the free Zope Application server," and that Plone's license will change as a result.

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  1. Lifecycle of Bad Software by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    1. Create bad design

    2. Create bad software

    3. Sell zero copies

    4. Release as "open source" to get attention

    5. No Profit!!

  2. Re:intelligence by antimatt · · Score: 5, Funny

    you and your "logic" and your "knowledge" of "computers" and "stuff."

  3. Re:Why not PostgreSQL? by Twirlip+of+the+Mists · · Score: 4, Funny

    Because "Ingres" is easy to pronounce?

    (Okay, on preview I realize that it's not actually easy to pronounce at all unless you too an art appreciation class in college. It's "On-gur." Oh, well. It's still easier to pronounce than PostgreSQL, which despite being my favorite database I can't tell anybody about because I can't say the damn name without feeling like a moron.)

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    I write in my journal
  4. Here you go by Chuck+Chunder · · Score: 2, Funny
    10 PRINT "HELLO!"
    20 GOTO 10
    You don't need to thank me, I'm more than happy to do my part for the betterment of the entire computing industry.
    --
    Boffoonery - downloadable Comedy Benefit for Bletchley Park
    1. Re:Here you go by _Sprocket_ · · Score: 2, Funny

      You might want to check on who owns that before you give it away. Seems like I've seen it elsewhere. Granted, it could be public domain. But it could also belong to SCO.

  5. Re:So many oss/fsf RDBMS... by BarryNorton · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think you're missing the most important issue - the logo! ROFL