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Open Source Ingres Swings At Oracle, SQL Server

Posted by timothy on from the you-mean-there-are-free-databases dept.

Rob Westervelt writes "Computer Associates is making its open sourced Ingres DBMS widely available today on Windows and Linux, pitching its mature features and 64-bit support at Oracle and SQL Server customers."

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  1. Anyone know how flexible the license is? by jbwiv · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Is it more BSD-like, or more GPL-like? Can commercial companies use it without paying CA for commercial licenses?

    The PostgreSQL license is what keeps drawing me back to it (aside from being a frickin' awesome database)...I can use it as much as I want without paying exorbitant fees. My company does, however, donate back to the community as much as possible.