The View From 25B
Waiting for a call from El Caro?
Friday, June 25th 2010 by Emma McGrattan
When we announced Ingres VectorWise at the UK IUA, earlier this month, we did a live demonstration running a query against Ingres VectorWise in the Amazon Cloud. To give a point of comparison we ran the identical query against a market leading Enterprise DBMS. We masked the competitor’s identity, to save them embarassment, but unfortunately that company’s name slipped... Read More
Behind the Curtain of OSS
Ingres VectorWise 1.0
Tuesday, June 08th 2010 by Fred Gallagher
We have been working for two years now to deliver Ingres VectorWise. With the first release, which we welcome today, we at Ingres are making a statement in the database industry and about the direction of Ingres as a company. Ingres VectorWise proves that open innovation can deliver a breakthrough product. And, we have established... Read More
Shine on Open Source
Labour government has succeeded in lower gov IT costs
Wednesday, March 17th 2010 by Steve Shine
As we warm up to a general election, I want to dwell on the positive moves we have seen from the current government in trying to achieving the cost savings in public sector IT spend. Last year the UK Government CIO, John Suffolk pushed out a world leading (in my opinion) policy revision on Open Standards,... Read More