CA Dangles $1M Bounty for Ingres Conversion Tools

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..."

Comments

Ingres?

[Dr. Photo]

[the idea being, obviously, to convert to Ingres, rather than away from it]

Otherwise, they'd call it Egress...

Re:hmm..

[Psiren]

It's not the bald zealots you need to worry about. It's the hairy ones that concern me ;)

Re:Is THIS the new industry STANDARD?

[ph1ll]

We LOVE CODING too much to do that, so personally we're gonna keep doin what we love and selling it. Helping people with our products has never been fun anyway!

I'm a coder. I love coding. I've been doing it for years.

I also love free software and I don't see it as a threat to my livelihood. On the contrary, I think it will provide me with secure employment.

Why? Because free, OSS software is useless by itself.

JBoss is free. Tomcat is free. MySQL is free. But they are all worthless to my company until I write code that uses them. These little babies have been making me a good living for the last few years!

I think OSS will accelerate the movement from software engineering being considered a manufacturing process to being accepted as a service. And I welcome that move.