Last year I had the opportunity to meet Rick van der Lans. He specializes in lecturing and writing books about databases, data warehousing, and BI topics. He’s quite an individual and has been a great resource over the year to help guide some of our work particularly in the BI space and future database work. After talking with several of us here at Ingres, Rick decided to put pen to paper or rather fingers to the keyboard and has just completed his new book, The SQL Guide to Ingres. At 700+ pages, it’s sure to answer all your Ingres SQL questions. Rick was joined by a number of individuals here at Ingres who helped with the editing of the book and includes a forward by Emma McGrattan.

If you happen to be in London on Tuesday, June 9, stop by for the UK IUA event where Rick will be talking about his new book on Ingres and connect with other Ingres users as well as hear what is going on at Ingres up close.

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Being around open source the last 10 years or so I have seen the basic principles of open source working in alot of different industries. I am always being asked if I have seen others outside the software development space taking advantage of open source and if so what projects. I saw this post and thought I would share this article.  Have you seen other examples of open source popping up in unique areas – If so please share them with us. We love to see successful examples of open source.

How Open source Biology May Rock your world..

http://ostatic.com/173578-blog/how-open-source-biology-may-rock-your-world

Here at OStatic, we’re always interested in efforts to apply open source principles to efforts outside the software realm. Drew Endy, an open source biologist currently working at Stanford, is a good example of why. Along with several researchers at MIT, Endy is working on synthetic biology and the engineering of standardized biological components and devices, known as BioBricks. Endy is also founder of the BioBricks Foundation, a non-profit organization founded by engineers and scientists from MIT, Harvard, and U.C. San Francisco, focused on open source biotechnology. Just as open source software is often shared in online repositories, the BioBricks Foundation has a registry online for open source biological parts. Here’s more on how these efforts may change the world, following open source principles.

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