{"id":97,"date":"2005-11-07T18:27:19","date_gmt":"2005-11-08T01:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/?p=97"},"modified":"2005-11-07T18:27:19","modified_gmt":"2005-11-08T01:27:19","slug":"ingres-sails-from-computer-associates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2005\/11\/07\/ingres-sails-from-computer-associates\/","title":{"rendered":"Ingres sails from Computer Associates"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve just started playing with Ingres recently (last 12 months). It’s a powerful DBMS that was released under an Open Source license last year<\/a>. From what I gather about the history of the database it has been kind of a “hot potato” being passed from university to company to company to company<\/a>, etc.<\/p>\n

Feature for feature Ingres appears to be the most advanced Open Source database available. However, since it has been released under the CATOSL<\/a> it has not resembled a community driven OSS project. There is still no public access to the source code repository, and as far as I know, there has not been source contributions from anyone outside of CA. The CATOSL<\/a> is a “funny” OSI approved license that I think also hinders the uptake of Ingres.<\/p>\n

However, all that could<\/i> change, starting today<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A venture capital firm<\/a> has purchased “Ingres” from CA and launched a company<\/a> focusing entirely on the Open Source database. This company has an opportunity to capitalize on a starting point most OSS projects could only dream of (starting with a product that is deployed with mission critical applications at more than 5000 customer sites). That’s just where they start though… their future must include turning Ingres into a full scale Open Source project and community. This means public discussion forums, public source code control, welcome third party contributors, peer to peer information sharing, user based support, etc. I think Ingres (company and project) would also be VERY<\/b> well served to trade the off color CATOSL license for a commercial friendly OSI approved license.<\/p>\n

Welcome Ingres, Inc<\/a>. to the marketplace! It’s an interesting one with Oracle, Microsoft, and IBM all providing “free” versions of their DB now and passionate communities in the MySQL and PostGres projects.<\/p>\n

As a die hard Oracle consultant I need much more information to draw conclusions about Ingres… I’ve been in touch with CA and Ingres, Inc. I hope to provide more information and a more detailed evaluation as time permits. Stay tuned for more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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