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CA Executive Outlines Open Source Plans For Ingres

Posted by timothy on from the biodiversity dept.

Rob Westervelt writes "In this Q&A, a top CA executive outlines CA's plans to take on Oracle, MySQL and others with the newly open sourced Ingres database. The status of CA's Million Dollar Challenge to open source developers is also explained."

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  1. Ingres features by downward+dog · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ingres has a discussion of that at http://www3.ca.com/Files/IndustryAnalystReports/bb _ingres.pdf.

    Surprisingly balanced (though a little slanted). Reads like a realistic strategy document: "How can we compete with MySQL? Oracle? SQL Server?"

  2. Smart to not even mention PostgreSQL. by jlrobins_uncc · · Score: 2, Informative

    He didn't even mention PostgreSQL. Smart, really, since PG is the 'true' opensource version of this codebase.

    See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingres the wikipedia for the gory details.