Re: Time to dust off your Ingres migration skills

Joshua Berkus wrote:

> For those of you who work for PostgreSQL consulting companies, you're about to develop a lucrative line in converting former Ingres users:
>
> http://www.dbms2.com/2011/09/25/ingres-actian/
>
> PostgreSQL is starting to look scarily like "last open source relational database standing".

Oh please.

I am a yarn-dyed Ingres bigot I know, but Curt is a rent-seeking sack
of do-do. Is it unfair to ask if his business practices remind
one of a protection racket? Pay him a fat fee to speak kindly of your
company or he will take the time to speak unkindly of it?) My contacts
tell me he has previously approached Ingres Corp (now Actian Corp) for
a fee and been sent packing.

Aligning yourself with comments from Monash reflects poorly on you.

Furthermore, I was talking to Steve Shine yesterday (CEO of Actian) and
he assures me that Greg Woods was misquoted in that article.

Ingres and Vectorwise are being energetically developed. It's no
secret that the Ingres geospatial project is going to be released this
year for instance. Vectorwise is rapidly adding functionality too.
Both are doing great, commercially and technically. Especially
commercially.

I will admit that open source Ingres had a lot of catching up to do
after being released from the cryogenic embrace of Computer
Associates, but the work is coming along.

In spite of being an Ingres bigot I have huge respect for PostgreSQL,
and I wouldn't think of targetting PostgreSQL users for migration.
There's plenty of rubbish products out there for us both to work at
displacing.

--
Roy

UK Ingres User Association Conference 2012 will be on Tuesday June 19 2012.
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