Think Global, Act Local
January 30th, 2008
Regular readers of my blog will recall that late last year I described France as a hot-bed of open source activity. Today you may have seen the announcement from the Open Solutions Alliance (OSA), of which Ingres is a member, announcing the formation of OSA Europe. The European Chapter of the OSA shares the goal of building compelling open solutions, based upon the integration and interoperability of best of breed open source solutions, and promoting best practices and frameworks around these solutions.
OSA Europe will provide regional focus towards achieving this global goal. At this week’s Solutions Linux show in Paris, from which today’s announcement was made, a number of OSA members are demonstrating integration and interoperability, and if you’re at the show I’d like to invite you to come chat with the team at the Ingres booth to learn more about Ingres.
Fortunately for Ingres we have a very strong partner team in Europe, led by Ru Kumar, and in France the dynamic duo of Eric Soares and Serge Goldstein have their fingers on the pulse of local open source activity. Integration and interoperability has long been a promise of open source, and it’s encouraging to see these open source projects, along with open source service providers, working together to deliver on this promise. New open source partnerships and alliances are as important to our success as the enduring partnerships that Ingres has built over the years, and we are actively cultivating both.
MySQL partners who are unsure of their future commitment to MySQL are invited to contact Ingres to understand the unique value proposition that Ingres provides. Ingres prides itself on providing the open source model you want, and the proven enterprise strength you need.
