Who is going to the Software 2008 show next week April 29th and 30th in Las Vegas?

I am speaking there Tuesday April 29th at 3:45 p.m. under the following subject heading:

How Digital Killed the Analog Store: Open Source and SaaS Solutions Virtualize Global IT Delivery (also titled “how I stopped building data centers and learned to virtualize IT”). Yes I am fond of the movie “Dr. Strangelove” and that song by “The Buggles”. The presentation will focus on the twin disruptive forces of Open Source and SaaS solutions on the technology marketplace.

Our CEO and President, Roger Burkhardt, is on the keynote Software Trends panel Tuesday at 2:30 p.m., speaking about the future of technology.

Ingres will be there with a booth that emphasizes our latest solutions and services. Oh, get a “back stage pass” to join Ingres in our booth where we will be playing Rock Band and demoing Ingres on a PS3!

Come and see us at Software 2008 and make noise with Ingres!

 

Came to Ingres and Opened Up Shop

One of the reasons I was excited to join Ingres is the fact that the management team was dedicated to the idea of supplying all of our business applications via Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions and everything else using open source software (OSS) solutions, including our own Ingres database. I had just gone through 2 years of painful but not uncommon downsizing effort at another company, taking IT spend from $8M down to $4M annually. I became convinced that the right way to provision IT is to maximize variable cost and get far away from large up-front capital expenditures. So I joined Ingres and we adopted a solutions sourcing strategy which included the 100% SaaS/OSS goal.

Lots of Solutions on the Menu

We started down this path with salesforce.com already in place for the sales team. We then selected Intacct Financials, and ADP’s HRIS system, all SaaS players themselves. Along the way we implemented SaaS based software from eProsper, Xactly, and others. (more…)

 

When someone walks into a meeting late, and there are people in the room who are just being introduced, I typically say to the latecomer, “Welcome - hey - as an icebreaker, everyone here already told a story from their childhood. Something involving fire would be good.” Once in awhile they oblige! Well, I suppose, being a late comer to the blogosphere I should go ahead and tell you one of mine.

I have been a dedicated fan of popular music from the time I was three years old. I still have a copy of the Beatles record, “Rubber Soul” that I played repeatedly, sneaking into my sister’s room to use the record player. At that early age I became a complete Anglophile. Ten years later, I was spinning anything out of Britain from the progressive rock acts of the time, including Jethro Tull, Yes, and so on. The “new wave” movement hit in the late 70’s and early 80’s and I was then again hooked on all types of creative bands such as Depeche Mode, Cocteau Twins, and others that mixed fashion, electronics and lots of attitude. (more…)