Ingres Database 9.2 launched

INGRES LAUNCHES INGRES DATABASE 9.2 - OPEN SOURCE ALTERNATIVE FOR
BUSINESS CRITICAL APPLICATIONS AT AFFORDABLE COST

Open Source Leader Unveils New, Fully Integrated, Highly Available, and
Resilient Database with Expanded Application Development Tools for
Production Applications Critical to Today's Businesses

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - November 18, 2008 - 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 http://esd.ingres.com/product/Ingres_Database/9.2.

 "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(tm)
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
http://esd.ingres.com/product/Ingres_Database/9.2 . For more information
on Ingres Database 9.2 please go to
http://www.ingres.com/products/ingres-database-9-2.php.


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 www.ingres.com.


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