DISQUS

Great,

I am in the process of setting up a wiki and want to collect links and code where appropriate. Can you mail them to grant {at}ingres dot co dot uk. When I get the site setup - hopefully soon - I will publish them.

thanks

grant

Hi Mark,

making Ingres a truly open source project will be a mammoth task. Whilst the initial focus of the new company has been to make sure the money keeps flowing in there are moves afoot to start to build communities around Ingres. When this will become visible to the outside is another question, which I am not in a position to answer. All I can say is there is a plan and we have discussed / will be discussing with partners what the changes will be.

On the development front Ingres Corp has been hiring new staff for Engineering roles ranging from new features to performance and bug fixing. I think it would be unfair to say the CA did not develop the product. However it would be fair to say that it did not give it the all attention it deserved. Certainly in the time I was there (from 1997 onwards) adoption by other CA products went from non-existent to part of the core strategy. They could not have done this if Ingres was the same product it was when CA bought ASK. The divestiture was the best thing that could have happened to Ingres.

As to 3rd party add-ins - I hope so, more the merrier. I would love to see more thingslike the Perl utilities.

grant

thanks Kingsley,

I may take you up on that offer

grant