On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 22:51:29 +1300 Wesley Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm currently downloading Ingres, the formerly CA-ed dbms. > http://www.ingres.com/ is where it's at, more specifically at > http://www.ingres.com/products/Prod_Download_Portal.html : > > "Ingres 2006 is available under a dual licensing model. Under this model, > users may choose to use Ingres under the GNU General Public License or under > a commercial license. ISVs and Resellers, who are embedding and reselling > Ingres as part of their own commercial solutions, can purchase a commercial > license." > "This is the Ingres 2006 source tree. The current version is a gzip tar file, > additional versions will be available for other platforms. This source code > is copyrighted by Ingres Corporation and all rights are reserved. This source > code is released under the GNU General Public License." > > Before Ingres Corp set up, it was available under a complex and almost > impenetrable Open Source license from CA; I've got that version, but never > felt like doing anything with it. But what a different in size from > University Ingres! Ingres source directory in 4.2BSD, unpacked, comes to 1.5 > MB; Ingres 2006 tarball comes to 93 MB! > > And since Ingres 2006 _is_ GPLed, I may well start playing with it. Does > anyone think there would be a place for a discussion of Ingres 2006 sometime > later this year? > > Wesley Parish > -- > Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish > ----- > Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? > You ask, what is the most important thing? > Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. > I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people. I look forward to it. Ingres was the first rdbms I used back in the 80's, and I have been meaning to see how well a really mature product like this stacks up against the young pretenders, especially MySQL and Postgres. Cheers, Steve
