I’ve finally taken the leap into the blogosphere. I’ve been promising to do this for about a year, and the launch of our new community web site seemed like the perfect opportunity for me to strike up a conversation with the Ingres community. The title of my blog, “The View from 25B”, came to me while stuck once again in the middle seat in the last row of a JetBlue flight. I’ve clocked up hundreds of thousands of miles meeting with customers, partners, prospects, and other Ingres folks, and for a while there, I thought my travel profile had specifically requested that non-reclining middle seat that I’ve come to call home. Recently, I was in Vegas at CA World, my first CA World where I wasn’t carrying a CA badge. My goal in going to CA World was to put that “legacy” tag to rest for good by highlighting the real innovation that we’ve been focused on for the past year. (more…)