We’re presently hosting the first ever Ingres Global Partner Summit in Prague and we have over 60 partners in attendance. Some of the partners who are in attendance have been Ingres partners for as long as I can remember and some, like SpagoBI, are recent additions to our partner portfolio and its been exciting to listen to our partners, new and old, share their successes.

I’ve always wanted to visit Prague so I decided to take advantage of the fact that I was coming to Europe for the partner summit to spend some time sightseeing. On Sunday I set out on a 4 hour tour of the city and was amazed at the parallels that could be drawn between this beautiful city and Ingres.

Prague enjoyed a golden age in the past and stands on the threshold of a new era. Prague has a lot of beautifully architected buildings whose classic design has withstood the test of time. Other buildings were erected, and then demolished and, redesigned, and rebuilt as advances were made in architecture – in much the way we’ve done with parts of the Ingres code over the years. Still others, such as the Dancing House Frank Gehry, have a thoroughly modern cutting edge design like many of the recent additions to Ingres. The blend of the classic with the post-modern reminds me a lot of Ingres.

To compare the time Ingres spent under the control of CA with the communist era would be crass and inaccurate, but certainly both Prague and Ingres have seen significant improvement and investment since they were liberated from their previous controllers and both have passed through the threshold to a new and brighter era.

More photos from the Ingres Partner Summit can be found at: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=32507&l=787eb&id=577801678

 

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