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CA Dangles $1M Bounty for Ingres Conversion Tools

Posted by simoniker on from the puppet-on-a-string dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Computer Associates, on the heels of their announcement that they were moving to the service and support model, hence open sourcing Ingres, is set to announce a $1 million bounty for Ingres conversion tools [the idea being, obviously, to convert to Ingres, rather than away from it]. The bounty announcement coincides with the official announcement of the downloadability of the new, open-source Ingres. An earlier Information Week article rues the passing of Jasmine, which was a great idea, and, although perhaps a few years [maybe a decade?] ahead of its time, still the sort of thing that people like me could sure benefit from. Hint, hint..."

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  1. More info... by manavendra · · Score: 4, Informative
    Just to make it clear, it isn't a single "bounty" of $1 million:
    CA will award five prizes totaling $1 million at CAWorld 2005 in Orlando, Fla., to individuals developing the best converters for moving customers from Oracle, Informix, DB2, SQL server, and Sybase databases to the Ingres database. The top prize could be worth as much as $500,000.
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  2. Re:hmm.. by manavendra · · Score: 4, Informative
    I agree with you to a large extent, but my statement wasn't related to a one-off announcement by CA, though it certainly was a constitute.

    Here are some others:


    This is by no means a complete list. I wish I had more time for this post, but I don't think its worth the effort

    I also have no doubt whatsoever that your statement is bald zealotry
    Oh really? How is musing about the subtle change in tones of software companies towards open source a fanatical devotion to cause?

    If the current corporate adoption of OSS is what constitutes critical mass (ie a few marginal projects here and there), then continue to welcome our current microsoft overlords..
    Sure, corporate adoption isn't what we'd like it to be. But neither do we expect things to change overnight. But the very fact that rather than standing firm against it, or suing it, they have started exploring it, smacks of a change in stance and outlook towards open source software. Pretty soon they will figure out way to make money with this change of stance. Which is what the ultimate success of open source software will be - availability of a larger pool of free software, yet the people developing it being paid.
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  3. Be careful... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Computer Associates will buy your company, chew on it until its got all the flavor, then spit you out. My company started a data warehouse with Platinum software (great a metadata and data movement), then Platinum was bought by these guys, and CA halted development. We had to sue them to get our project money back.

    CA has been buying companies for years, and not necessarily in a good way for consumers.

    "At No. 4, we have Computer Associates. The current federal investigation into accounting irregularities notwithstanding, the company's longtime practice of acquiring aging technologies, slashing new development, and attempting to milk the installed base for service and support is a bigger issue. Users are trapped, CA knows it, and it does its best to take advantage of the situation."