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Ingres: Is this the dark horse of the enterprise software pack? (ZDNet)

[Posted January 11, 2006 by corbet]

Here's a ZDNet weblog entry looking at the business case for free Ingres. "Another key factor that could favor Ingres is the integrity of its intellectual property, compared with MySQL. In October of 2005, Oracle bought Innobase, a Finnish company, whose technology is key to MySQL. That purchase provides Oracle with several business strategy options if MySQL starts to eat into Oracle sales. That would be an opportunity for Ingres to snag some of the MySQL market too."

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Posted Jan 12, 2006 0:55 UTC (Thu) by banliao (guest, #30536) [Link]

It's difficult for them to achieve this, but there's hope. So never underestimate a heart of champion.