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Interesting way to reduce your carbon footprint

With the focus on companies reducing their carbon foot print you have to wonder what those marketing people at Oracle were smoking when they sent Andy Armstrong a cardboard laptop.

As a follow up post says:
“This is all you’ll be able to afford after buying our database.”
Technorati Tags: oracle, interesting+marketing
edit: thanks to Colin from CA for [...]

IUA presentation - No speaky the COBOL?

This Wednesday I gave a session on the languages that can interface with Ingres. The content of my session was a high level overview with some simple examples thrown in for the non Embedded languages. Going into sufficient detail for all the languages we support in 35 minutes was not possible. There was a lot [...]

links for 2007-05-16

Ingres at CA World
For once not as CA employees - see how relaxed they are.
(tags: ingres “ca world” conference ps3)

links for 2007-05-14

Blog from Ingres Engineering
(tags: Ingres database open source community communication)

UK Ingres Users Association Spring conference
FREE!!!
(tags: ingres conference IUA london free database)

Link this

Yesterday I started to add links to a del.icio.us account I set-up some time ago. The idea being to share links related (in some way or other) to Ingres. If you wish to see the links posted you can go to http://del.icio.us/ingres or subscribe to the feed. In addition to you reading what [...]

links for 2007-05-13

NHibernate adds Ingres dialect
NHibernate is a relational persistence layer for idiomatic .NET, not to be confused with Hibernate which is a Java persistence layer.
(tags: ingres nhibernate dialect persistance layer .NET hibernate)

Another database company doing appliances
Seems like we have started something
(tags: database appliance ingres rpath linux icebreaker)

Emerging tech person… emerges
Now doing community service
(tags: ingres [...]

Eclipse Webcast playback available

For those of you who missed the webcast for the new Eclipse Ingres DTP plug-in, a playback is now available via the ingres.com website. In the meantime the DTP release has been getting some nice press coverage, as well as a blog post from the Ingres CFO.

UK Ingres User group meeting

The UK Ingres user group are holdling a day session combined with an Ingres roadshow in London. Check out the invite for details. Unlike previous IUA events this one is free. Get signed up now…

www.theinquirer.net becomes es.theinquirer.net (for me at least)

Not that this has anything do to with Ingres the product or company…
Whilst working overseas has many advantages, I do however like to read the news from back home. This week it would appear that the website formerly known as http://www.theinquirer.net has morphed into a pan-european entity, through the backing of its parent company VNU [...]

I like sushi

Whilst browsing technorati to see what other people are saying about Ingres - I came upon this piece on the history of Ingres. It is good to see a fair piece of reporting, especially regarding CA’s ownership of the product.