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  Ingres - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thus funded, Ingres was developed during the mid-1970s by a rotating team of students and staff.
Ingres remained largely similar to IBM's System R in concept, but based on "low end" systems, namely Unix on DEC machines.
In February 2006, Ingres Corporation released Ingres 2006 under the GNU General Public Licence.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ingres   (1181 words)

  
 Why Choose Ingres? - A comparison of Ingres and Oracle Relational Databases
Ingres table structures are rebuilt using "modify table" commands to impose a different or similar clean structure on a table; in effect a new copy of the table is created with clean structures.
Ingres requires substantial effort during design (or subsequently) to ensure that a system is configured to take best advantage of the features of the product, however it is possible and indeed straightforward to set up the system to require little or no attendance during maintenance activities.
Ingres allows data to be copied out to flat file in a flexible manner using the "copy table into file" syntax, which allows flexible creation of intermediate files: this is often a favoured method of extracting bulk data from Ingres.
website.lineone.net /~colin.mackellar/WhyIng.html   (7419 words)

  
 Ingres Corporation — Overview
Ingres Corporation is the world’s leading provider of business open source relational databases for companies of all sizes.
Ingres was formed as a partnership between Computer Associates and Garnett and Helfrich Capital with a product range that has loyal customer base, many of whom have been using the technology for more than a decade.
Ingres is a global company with offices in North America, Europe, and Asia to support its widespread community of users.
www.ingres.com /company   (145 words)

  
 SupportConnect - Ingres, OpenROAD, Enterprise Access and EDBC - Frequently Asked Questions
Ingres Corporation will intensify the focus on new development and invest even more heavily in building the finest support and service organization in the industry.
CA considers Ingres to be a strategic technology and will retain a significant equity stake in Ingres Corporation.
Ingres Corporation has ownership of all currently supported versions of these products and will continue to support all platforms currently supported by these products.
supportconnectw.ca.com /public/ingres/ingres-faqs.asp   (510 words)

  
 Mark Logic CEO Blog: Ingres: Can You Ever Go Back?
Ingres attempted to optimize more for each platform (e.g., squeezing the product into 640K on the PC by dropping functionality) which, while perhaps counter-intuitive, was a mistake.
Ingres missed this, was timid when it needed to be aggressive, and lost.
Ingres was bought by ASK in 1990 and sold to Computer Associates around 1992.
marklogic.blogspot.com /2006/04/ingres-can-you-ever-go-back.html   (1352 words)

  
 Charles Babbage Institute: RESEARCH PROGRAM> Current research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
INGRES is a relational database (qv) system for the Unix operating system.
INGRES is written primarily in the C (qv) programming language.
The history of the INGRES project, which ended at Berkeley in the mid-1980s (to be superceded by work on the Postgres (qv) object-oriented relational database system by Stonebraker and others at Berkeley), may be compared with that of another 1970s relational database pioneer, System R (qv).
www.cbi.umn.edu /shp/entries/ingres.html   (418 words)

  
 Agreement Creates Leading Business Open Source Database Company
The initial code base for Ingres was available under a version of the BSD license and it became a commercial DBMS in the mid-1980s.
In 2004, CA released the Ingres database to the open source community under the CA Trusted Open Source License, a derivative of the common public license that is compliant with the Open Source Initiative.
The Ingres transaction with CA is Garnett and Helfrich Capital's second VBO transaction since the firm's inception in 2004.
www.dmreview.com /article_sub.cfm?articleId=1041447   (894 words)

  
 The Unix Guardian--CA Spins Out Open Source Ingres Database
The Ingres database is almost as old as the commercial data processing market--back then, it was called data processing, not information technology--and it is certainly no stranger to the open source movement.
In fact, Ingres is one of the oldest open source projects in the world and was one of the early relational databases, which in this case came out of a research project at the University of California at Berkeley.
The open source Ingres r3 is available on HP-UX 11i, AIX 5L, Linux 2.4 and 2.6 on X86, X64, and Itanium, Windows 2000, 2003, and XP on 32-bit X86, Solaris 8, 9, and 10 on Opteron and Sparc, and SCO OpenServer 6 and UnixWare 7.1.3 and 7.1.4.
www.itjungle.com /tug/tug111005-story03.html   (1357 words)

  
 Ingres Corporation :: Ingres Initiates Partnership With BEA
Ingres Corporation is the leading Business Open Source software company, created in November 2005 as part of a partnership between CA (NYSE: CA) and Garnett and Helfrich Capital.
Based on more than 25 years of technology investment, Ingres Corporation offers a product family of enterprise-class, highly scalable databases and tools that are currently being used by more than 10,000 major global customers and partners.
Ingres Corporation is based in Redwood City, California, and has major development, sales and support centers in Islandia, Long Island, and Slough, England, and supports customer implementations in more than 58 countries around the world.
sev.prnewswire.com /computer-electronics/20060619/SFM02719062006-1.html   (597 words)

  
 Computerworld > Ingres resurgent: price is right and it’s open source
CA retains a 20% stake in the new Ingres Corporation, which was officially launched in November 2005, coincidentally on the same day Microsoft released SQL Server 2005.
The Ingres 2006 database is integrated with the Linux operating system, enabling a single management environment where support is provided by one point of contact and a unified maintenance stream.
Ingres was bought by Ask Computer Systems in 1990 but the company ran into financial difficulties and sold the business to Computer Associates in 1994.
computerworld.co.nz /news.nsf/rss/C4B73FB19BEB1467CC2571F10011908C   (943 words)

  
 SupportConnect - Support for Advantage Ingres Enterprise Relational Database
Please be aware that as of Monday, December 19, support for Ingres, OpenROAD, Enterprise Access, and EDBC has officially moved to Ingres Corporation.
Ingres r3 3.0.2 (a64.sol/109) - Sun Solaris 10 for x86 compliant 32-bit Intel and AMD Opteron processors.
The Ingres r3 3.0.2.109 source code is also available for download in zip and tar format.
supportconnectw.ca.com /public/ingres/ingressupp.asp   (655 words)

  
 CA Divests Ingres - Technology News by TechWeb
Garnett & Helfrich Capital, a private equity firm specializing in venture buyouts, is the majority shareholder of the independent Ingres Corporation.
CA retains a 20 percent ownership stake in the company, the right to appoint a member to the board of directors, and plans to continuing marketing and development.
Ingres technology began as an early relational database management system at the University of California, Berkeley 30 years ago.
www.techweb.com /showArticle.jhtml?articleId=173500259   (429 words)

  
 UK Ingres Users Association
With generous support from Ingres, this event was free to attend, and featured a typical mix of strategic and technical sessions.
While users will need to make their own judgements on the commercial impact of these changes on their own organisations, we hope and expect that Ingres Corporation's goal of substantially increasing user numbers can best be achieved by having a licensing model that both new and existing users are happy with.
We have had a number of initial discussions with the management team from Ingres Corporation, and are greatly encouraged by their passion and enthusiasm for re-invigorating this world-class technology.
www.iua.org.uk   (624 words)

  
 The Unix Guardian--CA Releases Ingres r3 Database As Open Source
Ingres was never a household name and is arguably more obscure than Oracle, IBM's DB2, SQL Server, the open source MySQL, and Sybase.
CA is releasing Ingres r3, as its open source variant of Ingres is called, it under its own license, which it calls the CA Trusted Open Source License.
Ingres r3 is available immediately on Linux and Windows, and you can get download it here.
www.itjungle.com /tug/tug110404-story03.html   (795 words)

  
 CA dumps Ingres database - Computeract!ve   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
Ingres Corporation aims to make money from the software as an open source project, providing services and maintenance.
Ingres grew as a commercial relational database out of a research project at the University of California in Berkeley in the early 1970s.
Peter O'Kelly, a senior analyst with the Burton Group, told vnunet.com that he suspects that the open sourcing of Ingres had failed to attract sufficient external developers to allow the application to survive without support from the vendor.
www.computeractive.co.uk /vnunet/news/2145701/ca-dumps-ingress-database   (661 words)

  
 Ingres Corporation — Tom Berquist’s Blog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
Finally, next generation technical support networks that are being developed by Ingres and other open source providers will continue to reduce the costs of managing, patching, and securing open source deployment platforms.
At Ingres, our strategy head, Dave Dargo, tends to focus his blog on open source and industry thought leadership, our corporate strategy, our competitor’s actions, product announcements, and commentary on what press and analysts are saying about Ingres.
Ingres is going through its annual planning process as our 2006 fiscal year ends in December, and we are starting to turn our attention to the 2007 fiscal year.
idx242.idx.net /tomberquist   (4814 words)

  
 Michael Stonebraker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He is also the founder of Ingres, Illustra, Cohera and StreamBase Systems, and was previously the CTO of Informix.
At the time Ingres was considered "low end" compared to IBM's similar effort, System R, as it ran on Unix-based DEC machines as opposed to the "big iron" IBM mainframes.
Ingres was offered using a variation of the BSD license for a nominal fee, and soon a number of companies took advantage of this to create commercial versions of Ingres.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Stonebraker   (647 words)

  
 Ingres2006, open source RDMS, has been released
Ingres Corporation has released Ingres 2006, a new release of the RDBMS.
Ingres r3 was released as open source under the very liberal and OSI approved CA Trusted Open Source license in 2004.
Ingres 2006 claims to be the most secure open source database, and have "the fastest query optimization in open source," with parallel query support that allows complex queries to be executed in parallel.
www.theserverside.com /news/thread.tss?thread_id=38971   (4377 words)

  
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Ingres Launches Involve Partner Program In UK Ingres Corporation, the leading business open source database company, today announced Ingres Involve, a new programme designed to help partners achieve success by easily and cost-effectively integrating Ingres products with their core solution offerings in the UK.
With more than 10,000 enterprise customers and 20-plus years of experience delivering enterprise databases, Ingres is uniquely positioned to supply technology, service, support and education to partners looking to build enterprise-class solutions that drive maximum value for their customers.
www.irishdev.com /NewsArticle.aspx?id=4471   (530 words)

  
 Ingres Prepares for Open-Source Market Push
Ingres severed the last ownership link Nov. 7 2005 when CA turned over billing and revenue collection for Ingres products to the spinoff.
This was Ingres' opportunity "to call on our customers to convince them to shift a big piece of their architecture to open source over time," Garnett said.
Ingres may be able to achieve a 10 percent penetration, by offering the database as a lower-cost, open-source alternative to the top players, said Tom Berquist, Ingres' recently hired chief financial officer.
www.eweek.com /article2/0,1759,1946770,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594   (983 words)

  
 Ingres Corporation :: Ingres Corp. Acquires German Firm Thinking Instruments
With the acquisition of Thinking Instruments, Ingres immediately broadens its global reach in the important business markets of Germany and the Middle East, as well as expands its revenue base in a profitable manner.
An Ingres reseller for 13 years, Thinking Instruments brings a wealth of experience with customers using Ingres in the public sector and in various industries, including steel and energy, as well as experience building and servicing Ingres-based applications.
Dargo additionally emphasized how both Thinking Instruments and Ingres Corporation's customers will benefit from the purchase: "Thinking Instruments' customers now have direct access to Ingres's broader support and services organizations for reliable delivery of critical infrastructure services, and Ingres's customers benefit from Thinking Instruments' application development, geographical and industry-specific expertise," he said.
sev.prnewswire.com /computer-electronics/20060725/SFTU07025072006-1.html   (526 words)

  
 Garnett & Helfrich Capital - News
Dave Dargo joins Ingres Corporation as senior vice-president, Strategy and chief technology officer bringing more than 25 years experience in the technology industry to Ingres.
Emma McGrattan joins Ingres as senior vice president of Engineering from CA where she held a similar position responsible for the Ingres family of relational database management products.
Allbritten will be charged with providing more than 5,000 Ingres customers with comprehensive technical support, access to the latest product enhancements and upgrades, and the education needed to apply the full potential of Ingres products.
www.garnetthelfrich.com /pressreleases/051107a.htm   (987 words)

  
 CA Partners with Garnett & Helfrich Capital in Ingres Divestiture
Garnett on the board of Ingres Corporation will be Mark Barrenechea of CA, Michael Rocha formerly of Oracle, and David Helfrich of Garnett and Helfrich Capital.
Ingres supports mission-critical applications from small to medium business to large-scale enterprise environments.
Ingres is available in open source and benefits from a strong, vibrant community of Ingres developers and customers.
www3.ca.com /press/PressRelease.aspx?CID=75884   (1492 words)

  
 Sponsored by Ingres Corporation and reprinted with permission 1-800-843-0008   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
Tom Berquist, a well-known securities analyst covering the software industry, is leaving the profession to become chief financial officer of Ingres Corp., a newly reorganized maker of database programs.
His decision partly stems from a series of rule changes on Wall Street that have put restrictions on how analysts can gather information, specifically cutting down on his communications with new companies that help shape the future of the industry.
Ingres, whose Redwood City, Calif., headquarters is near Oracle's, has several veterans from the larger company in its ranks.
webreprints.djreprints.com /1403820587881.html   (395 words)

  
 LXer: Ingres Appoints CA's Sam Greenblatt to Board of Directors
Ingres also announced that Board member Mark Barrenechea, who recently joined Ingres's parent company -- private equity venture buyout firm Garnett & Helfrich Capital -- would continue his tenure on the Ingres Board.
Barrenechea had previously served as executive vice president and chief technology officer for CA and was their appointee to the Ingres Board.
Ingres Corporation is the leading Business Open Source software company, created in November 2005 as part of a partnership between CA, Inc. (NYSE: CA) and Garnett & Helfrich Capital.
lxer.com /module/newswire/view/64993/index.html   (862 words)

  
 William's Ingres Database Reference
Ingres keymappings can be tricky but not as difficult as configuring sendmail!
Some of our clients use BI/Query from Hummingbird for generating adhoc SQL queries and reports with Ingres (BI/Query used to be called GQL when it was owned by Andyne).
In comparison, the current Ingres systems they replace were developed in-house at an estimated development cost of 4 million (AUS) during a 10-15 year lifetime.
ariel.its.unimelb.edu.au /~yuan/Ingres/ingres.html   (686 words)

  
 INGRES30th
The UC Berkeley Distinguished Lecture with Michael Stonebraker, Eugene Wong, Jerry Held, and Peter Kreps, marks the 30th anniversary of the publication of the paper: "The Design and Implementation of INGRES".
The INGRES project was prolific in ideas, in students who then founded companies, and in contributions to the field.
The reception will be sponsored by Ingres Corporation.
www.eecs.berkeley.edu /IPRO/INGRES30   (208 words)

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