Behind the Curtain of OSS
Podcast - The Era of Open Source Databases
Wednesday, June 24th 2009 by Fred Gallagher
A lot can be learned about the current recession by looking at the recession that took place in 2001. By understanding the impact that recession had on technology, we can gain some insight into how things may play out as this recession starts to ease. In the final episode of our three part podcast series, we... Listen
The View From 25B
UK IUA Code Sprint - It Takes a Global Village
Thursday, June 18th 2009 by Emma McGrattan
Last week the UK IUA held a very successful and well attended User Group meeting at the University of Westiminster in London. We decided to host a two day development code sprint immediately before the user group event, and I thought you’d be interested to learn more about the results. We had 16 participants with roughly an equal number of Ingres employees... Read More
Out of the Woods
More Goodies from Ingres..
Tuesday, June 09th 2009 by Deb Woods
Our community is at it again, this time releasing a really cool Query Tool . The Query Tool was shown at the UK IUA today and got rave reviews. Thought I would share some information about it and hopefully get some feedback on the tool as well. Query Tool is an Ingres data management application that... Read More
Alternative Information Technology
Open Source - Just Good Business
Thursday, May 28th 2009 by Doug Harr
The Economist posted an article today entitled “Open Source Software in the Recession” that effectively presents the current state of the open source software market and some of the benefits derived. Great comments included from Red Hat, Al Fresco , and Forrester executives and analysts. One point made in the article is that as open... Read More