I’m writing this from a hotel conference room in London where we’re in the middle of a development sprint. We’ve gathered a random mix of two dozen people drawn from our community together with folks from the Ingres engineering and services teams to see what we can achieve in a three day code sprint. We started the event with a brainstorming session where we came up with dozens of ideas of things that we could undertake and narrowed the list down to about a dozen projects that we hope to complete before Roy’s opening session at the Ingres User Association meeting on Tuesday. By the way, if you’d like to attend the UK IUA there’s still time to register at http://www.iua.org.uk (more…)

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. (more…)

It’s hard to believe it, but Ingres Corporation is two years old today! I guess we’re proving the adage that time flies when you’re having fun! So, what’s so terrible about Ingres as a two year old? Anyone who has spent time with a two year old will know that their favorite question is “why?” and that’s a question that you’re going to hear a lot from Ingres over the next twelve months. (more…)