CA Dangles $1M Bounty for Ingres Conversion Tools

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday August 4, 2004 @10:31PM 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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Re:More info... by kfg · 2004-08-05 00:22 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Not until February 1, 2005!

Damn, I really could have used a couple extra bucks for the weekend.

Ah well, guess I can always hit the streets with my tin cup full of PDA styluses.

KFG