http://comtechreview.com Computers, Communications and Technology Review Wed, 23 May 2012 16:56:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://comtechreview.com/2009/06/24/ingres-an-open-source-rival-to-oracle.html http://comtechreview.com/2009/06/24/ingres-an-open-source-rival-to-oracle.html#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:51:14 +0000 editor http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2009/06/ingres_an_open.html I've been following the path of Ingres Corp. ever since Terry Garnett and David Helfrich of Garnett & Helfrich Capital bought it from CA a few years back and made it into an independent company once again. Ingres and MySQL are the main open-source alternatives to Oracle in the database software market. Now that Oracle is buying Sun Microsystems, which owns MySQL, you've got to figure that Oracle will starve MySQL once it owns it--eliminating what had until now been a potent rival in the Web site market. Ingres is emerging as the last bastion of opposition within the open source world.

]]> I've been following the path of Ingres Corp. ever since Terry Garnett and David Helfrich of Garnett & Helfrich Capital bought it from CA a few years back and made it into an independent company once again. Ingres and MySQL are the main open-source alternatives to Oracle in the database software market. Now that Oracle is buying Sun Microsystems, which owns MySQL, you've got to figure that Oracle will starve MySQL once it owns it--eliminating what had until now been a potent rival in the Web site market. Ingres is emerging as the last bastion of opposition within the open source world.

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