I mentioned in a previous post UK IUA 2010 that Ingres announced the release of Ingres VectorWise. During the announcement was a live demonstration using the Ingres Database Workbench; recorded for posterity.
Another successful and worthwhile conference hosted by the UK Ingres User Association wrapped up Tuesday evening following a day cram packed with keynotes speeches and presentations. Most notably, this year’s keynote speakers were Roger Burqhart, Phillip Andrew from RedHat and Dr. Ian Howells from Alfresco each with a similar message; Open source is a key [...]
Following the popularity and attendance at last year’s code sprint a repeat of the event was held on the two days prior to the UK IUA. The objective of the event was to introduce, and in some cases re-introduce, the sprinters to the Ingres source code and build environment; either a pre-configured VMWare virtual machine [...]
On February 25th the parents of the Ingres Icebreaker ECM Appliance announced its availability; the holistic product of Ingres Icebreaker and Alfresco Document Management Software. Although we immediately started on our next project the team did take a few moments to look up from the keyboard. The release was well received by the press and [...]
This year’s conference was preceded by an experimental three day development code sprint. Read about the sprint, A Sprint to the Finish. On the day of the conference the first half plenary speakers were Roy Hann, Simon Catlin, Emma McGrattan and Joe Kronk. Roy focused on two topics, conference organization and community communications. There are [...]
It now seems a very long time ago, but last November I took part in a team meeting where we discussed how to evangelize Ingres within our own sphere of influence. Projects similar to the Playstation 3 port and the Eclipse DTP were mentioned as innovative. During the meeting I was asked to take a [...]
Nine Months later and another conference gathering. With only a one day conference it was a challenge to fit so much content into so little time and Roy Hann did a tremendous job of scheduling the five streams. The event was again sponsored by Ingres and attendance cost was free (as in beer). The straw [...]
Reaching out to our customers, partners and community It is the aniversary of our divestiture from CA (cheer!) and whilst the corporate machine keeps the industry and press informed I know that a few of you like the odd face-to-face meetings at conferences and events. I attended the recent UK Ingres User Association conference in [...]