Ingres Launches Ingres Database 9.2 – Open Source Alternative for Business Critical Applications at Affordable Cost

2008-11-18 17:03:03 -

Ingres Corporation, a leading provider of open source database software and support services, announced today the availability of Ingres Database 9.2, the leading open source database that helps organizations develop and manage business critical applications at an affordable cost. Ingres Database 9.2 is flexible, simple, secure, reliable, and scalable to cope with even the most complex, multi-language requirements including business

intelligence, content management, data warehousing, enterprise resource planning (ERP), and logistics management. Already a leader in the field, Ingres Database also offers added features to further improve the availability required by the enterprise. To download the latest version, go to cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT"id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fesd ...
"With Ingres Database 9.2, we offer our global customers an integrated open source database like no other on the market, in terms of innovation, technology feature-set, and affordability," said Roger Burkhardt, president and CEO of Ingres. "The many new capabilities in this release were driven by our customers, partners, and other community members and we benefited from significant community code contributions. This exciting new release delivers reliable, secure, efficient data management in a single integrated product, and at an affordable cost."
"Customers have been waiting for the open source industry to come up with a storage engine capable of truly enterprise grade functionality for global applications," said Stephen Ferrando, CEO of dbConcert, a company that builds open source trading solutions for leading Wall Street firms. "There are many versions out there - each with multiple options I cannot even keep track of " but none of them provide the security, failover, and replication support for the non-stop operation our enterprise clients demand. Ingres Database 9.2 delivers " and that is why we chose Ingres."
Customer Praise for Ingres Database 9.2
In today"s world, system downtime can mean the difference between a healthy bottom line and business disaster. Ingres Database 9.2 is engineered to keep your Ingres-based solutions up and available around the clock and is the only open source database that combines the flexibility of open source with the business critical availability and reliability of commercial database management system (DBMS) platforms. In these difficult economic times, some CIOs will lead from the front and innovate, others will hibernate. Ingres Database 9.2 provides customers with the ability to drive innovation and realize significant cost savings.
"Clinical trials demand the highest levels of security, reliability, accuracy and performance. For this reason, Ingres is an integral part of our infrastructure and meets the demands for our custom development," said Bill Elgie, director of information at the Gynecological Oncology Group, a non-profit organization that promotes excellence in the quality and integrity of clinical and scientific research in the field of gynecologic malignancies. "We can use Ingres in the development of our custom applications and then take our solution into production without the added cost and risk of porting to another database. Other open source alternatives don"t meet our needs for such critical enterprise applications. Ingres has proven to be a robust environment that exceeds our business needs at a very low cost."
Partner Support for Ingres Database 9.2
Ingres partners Alfresco and Jaspersoft rely on Ingres Database 9.2 as the platform for content management and business intelligence solutions. Jaspersoft and Ingres have successfully collaborated on the Ingres IceBreaker BI appliance, which has set the foundation for new product innovation and continued momentum in the market. Ingres leverages the Alfresco product line to deliver complete content management solutions to enterprise customers with all of the cost and flexibility benefits that an open source solution provides.
"Ingres provides a robust, highly available solution for our enterprise customers," said John Newton, CTO and chairman, Alfresco Software. "They understand the importance of providing real time backup and point in time restore to ensure our customer"s data is always available."
"Ingres delivers an enterprise-ready platform for our business intelligence customers," said Jose Morales, vice president of business development, Jaspersoft. "Jaspersoft is working closely with Ingres to optimize our products for version 9.2, which together will deliver an optimal solution for mission-critical business intelligence applications."
Key Features in Ingres Database 9.2
In addition to delivering on reliability and affordability, Ingres Database 9.2 reduces the time, complexity, and database administrator (DBA) requirements by simplifying and automating many tasks traditionally associated with maintaining a business-class database. Upgrades from previous releases are a simple, highly automated task with no requirement to reload data. In addition, the release focuses on improved application development, with enhanced availability and supportability. Key features include:
Internationalized Applications
Today, more and more organizations expand globally. It has therefore become even more important that business applications support all languages involved in the organization"s business. Ingres Database 9.2 provides unparalleled multi-language support with expanded Unicode features.
Improved Availability
Ingres customers have long delivered high availability for their business critical applications by leveraging its proven high availability features and robust operational capabilities. Business systems have to be up 24 x 7 to serve customers and employees in all time zones. With Ingres Database 9.2, new features focus on increasing the availability of the server, such as enhancements to point-in-time restore and online backup.
Improved Application Development
Ingres continues to support the latest standards including Java" Database Connectivity (JDBC), open database connectivity (ODBC), and .NET Data Provider. Ingres has always been a leader in application development using Eclipse with its data tools plug-in. Now, Ingres Database 9.2 simplifies the development of web-based Java applications and continues to support a wide range of development platforms including PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, C++ and .Net.
Easier to Use, Less Expensive to Support
Shrinking IT budgets translate to fewer resources to support more systems. Ingres Database 9.2 introduces features to reduce the amount of time needed to keep your systems running smoothly.
Download Ingres Database 9.2 Today
Ingres Database 9.2 is available for download today at cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT"id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fesd .. . For more information on Ingres Database 9.2 please go to cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT"id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww ...
About Ingres Corporation
Ingres Corporation is a leading provider of open source database software and support services. Ingres powers customer success by reducing costs through highly innovative products that are hallmarks of an open source deployment and uniquely designed for business critical applications. Ingres supports its customers with a vibrant community and world class support, globally. Based in Redwood City, California, Ingres has major development, sales, and support centers throughout the world, and more than 10,000 customers in the United States and internationally. For more information, visit cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww ...
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