There have been a number of recent improvements to Ingres’s Subversion repository and community issue tracking located at http://code.ingres.com and http://bugs.ingres.com respectively. The following changes were made:
Common authentication back-end
SSL for login
Improved synchronization from Piccolo
Common authentication back-end
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 [...]
The next phase of the ingres.com website redesign has been launched. http://community.ingres.com/ is the community side of the ingres.com website that replaces opensource.ingres.com. A brief look at the forums appears to show that the posts from the old site have been migrated across. Also it is worth noting that Ingres is using its own software [...]
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.
Yesterday I released version 1.4.1 of the PECL Ingres extension. Mainly a bug fix release fixing some interesting SEGV/GPFs with different web servers.
Added environment check during initialization
Fixed SEGV when closing a statement
Fixed spurious E_WARNING with empty LOB dataset
Fixed SEGV when ingres_close() is not called
Fixed auto commit cannot be enabled on shutdown
Fixed Array index start for [...]
Ingres has had Perl support for sometime through ingperl (Perl 4 derivative) and more recently with DBD::Ingres. However it was a nice surprise to see someone from Brazil writing some Perl utilities drive the command line utilities iinamu and iimonitor.
A bit slow of me reporting this but Gartner/IDC have finally added Ingres, along with MySQL, to their annual state of the database market report. The way the figures are calculated seem to be based on the license revenue generated by the contract. Since Ingres, with 2006, no longer has a license fee that counts [...]
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