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Ingres Engineering Summit 2008

28-Apr-08

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 […]

Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2008

28-Mar-08

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 […]

Cached Dynamic Query

22-Mar-08

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 […]

Ingres Sourcerer’s (sic) Apprentice

09-Nov-07

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 […]

Business Intelligence Appliance

22-Aug-07

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 […]

Trade show jeopardy (just for fun)

15-Jun-07

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. […]

Engineering joins the Blogosphere

14-May-07

Last week Ingres Engineering joined the blogosphere when Emma McGrattan, Senior Vice President of Engineering, started her blog “The view from 25B” with the post “Innovation at Work and at Play”.
Many of you in the existing Ingres community will already know Emma as a long time proponent for Ingres technology who candidly expresses her opinion.
This […]

UK IUA November 2006

09-Nov-06

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 London, one […]