WOW! What a week.
I was lucky enough to participate in the Ingres Engineering Summit 2008 and I don’t think that a short blog could really do it justice. Ingres Engineering is distributed around the globe and this was an ideal opportunity to meet up and catch up. The summit was held in the […]
This year Ingres is participating organization in GSoC, an event sponsored by Google that encourages students, of all levels, to get involved with Open Source. A summary of some proposed projects can be found here and here, any interested candidates need to get their skates on as the deadline for application is March 31, register […]
It has been a very busy few months and the appliance team moves apace and is continuously subjected to requests for new applications and Ingres releases.
With the latest release of Ingres one of the new features is cached dynamic query plans; that will benefit any application that uses prepared dynamic queries.
Ingres has long had the […]
I’ve been clearing out some old files and found an example of ingstatus for Windows. Ingstatus is a utility that is available on Linux and UNIX. This example uses the functions available in the little known library iilibutil.dll. I’ve put it on the community site on the ingstatus page.
The iilibutil library […]
Ingres is starting a project modeled on the Linux Kernel Janitors Project called (for now) the Ingres Janitors Project. Early indications are that the existing news group comp.databases.ingres and the mailing list info-ingres are going to be used as the vehicle for communications.
Any one who is interested in participating or contributing should visit the links […]
Ingres announces the launch of its Business Intelligence (BI) Appliance built around JasperSoft’s BI suite and Icebreaker itself an integration of rPath Linux and Ingres Database Management Server.
The BI Appliance eliminates barrier entry costs, simplifies deployment and reduces the total cost of ownership.
The Ingres Icebreaker BI Appliance is available to download for a 60-day trial […]
One of the new features included in release 2 of Ingres 2006 was the addition of ISO SQL date (also known as ANSI date), time and interval types to the Ingres date type.
The Ingres date is composed of both a date and a time component which differs from the discrete date and time of the […]
A while back a group of us were asked for innovative ideas for demonstrating Ingres at Ca World 2007. One of mine was to have Ingres ported and run on the Sony Playstation 3. It’s relatively new, fairly exclusive, quite stylish and equipped to dual-boot. Some of the challenges was to persuade […]
A warm front from the west…
This week heralds the start of the prioritization of development projects for the next 12 to 18 months. Representatives of various groups are gathering in the HQ offices to discuss these projects. There are hundreds of requests for projects covering a wide variety of areas. Requests and […]
I was discussing with a colleague our recent attendance of trade shows Software 2007, the RedHat Summit and Ca World to name a few. The demonstration of Ingres running on the PS3 seemed to arouse curiosity but you still end up answering similar questions so here are some answers in no particular order:
01. […]