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INGRES ANNOUNCES COMBINED OPEN SOURCE STACK FOR DATA-RICH BUSINESS APPLICATIONS
First Java Development Stack Pre-Integrates Ingres Database and Red Hat's JBoss Middleware Available Today for Evaluation
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - May 27, 2009 - Ingres Corporation, the leading open source database management company and pioneer of the New Economics of IT, announced today the Ingres Development Stack for JBoss, which is the first-ever fully pre-assembled bundle that combines Ingres Database with Red Hat’s JBoss Developer Studio and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. The Ingres Development Stack for JBoss is available immediately as a 90-day evaluation at http://esd.ingres.com.
The Ingres Development Stack for JBoss includes all the components of Ingres Database and JBoss Developer Studio, offering businesses superlative technologies at a fraction of the cost of proprietary vendors. This offering represents another example of Ingres providing combined solutions that offer more choice in the market. Businesses adopting the open source IT solutions stand to achieve significant cost savings over proprietary software models.
"Worldwide enterprise customers are already using both companies' open source technologies, but this represents the first time Ingres has pre-assembled an entire open source IT solution that includes JBoss Enterprise Middleware," said Deb Woods, vice president of product management, Ingres. "Ultimately, it offers businesses the most advanced, proven application server and database technologies at a low cost point, as well as an open alternative to locked-in proprietary solutions at these critical layers of the stack."
The Ingres Development Stack for JBoss creates a rich environment where Java developers can build data-centric applications together with the middleware and database required to support these applications in the enterprise. Combining the benefits of open source and open standards, the Ingres Development Stack for JBoss enables developers to quickly build portable, reliable, mission critical applications that can scale from the developers desktop to the enterprise data center. Once in full production, business managers can rest assured that the infrastructure supporting their business applications has been proven in countless mission critical deployments around the globe.
More about the Ingres Development Stack for JBoss
To make it easier for developers, Ingres has pre-configured all components to work together so that once the installation is complete, they can start coding immediately. Rich, self-documented sample applications are also provided; designed specifically to increase productivity and quickly aid developer’s understanding of both technologies.
Business applications built using the stack will include database features most required in an enterprise, such as hot back-up, active-passive high availability, on-line table and index reorganization, security auditing, database partitioning, and parallel query execution, among several other business-critical features that come with Ingres..
"Java developers that have previously used JBoss Developer Studio with another underlying database technology will find the move to Ingres to be completely seamless," continued Woods.
Industry Analysts on the Ingres Development Stack for JBoss
Dozens of industry analysts have been given a sneak preview of the Ingres Development Stack for JBoss. Here’s what they had to say:
"With this development stack, Ingres has built a solution that pushes even deeper into the enterprise," said Mike Thompson, BPM Practice Director at Butler Group. "In the past, open source would be used at the development stages and then the code would be transitioned into a proprietary software offering. As a Red Hat partner, Ingres is delivering a sturdy commercial open source offering that helps make open source inside the enterprise a reality."
"These solutions make it easier for enterprises to get on board with open source immediately," said Laurent Lachal, senior analyst, Ovum.
"Unlike a few years ago, enterprises today can and do run mission-critical database and Java application software in purely open source form," said Jay Lyman, enterprise software analyst for The 451 Group. "The Ingres Development Stack for JBoss offering demonstrates how open source and open standards are providing not only enterprise alternatives, but also enterprise advantages in terms of cost, flexibility and avoiding vendor lock-in."
Partner Support for the Ingres Development Stack for JBoss
Ingres partners agree that the Ingres Development Stack for JBoss eases the transition from a proprietary to an open source deployment.
"Exadel currently offers a comprehensive development suite for building rich enterprise solutions leveraging open source technologies for Red Hat enterprise platforms," said Fima Katz, president & CEO at Exadel, a leading provider of innovative Web 2.0 application software. "We view the Ingres Development stack for JBoss as an excellent opportunity to integrate our development suite into the stack offering. At Exadel, we believe in helping organizations deploy rich internet applications needed to claim leadership in their markets. The Ingres Development Stack for JBoss is another example of a cost effective solution that we believe in and fully support."
More about Ingres and Red Hat
Together Ingres and Red Hat have initiated several marketing campaigns around the world to recruit ISVs and systems integrators (SIs) to take advantage of the commercial open source value proposition, including CHILL, a cosponsored ISV recruitment campaign in EMEA, and field level programs designed to generate demand for commercial open source solutions. Ingres is also a founding member of the Open Source Channel Alliance, a consortium of open source ISVs that have signed distribution agreements to reach more resellers and systems integrators.
Ingres also recently announced three enterprise customers that have deployed their mission-critical infrastructure on end-to-end open source solutions, including Biveroni Batschelet Partners AG (BBP), Allied Express, and Connected Weddings. Theses joint customers have migrated to solutions based on Ingres Database, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Using this combination of open source solutions is enabling enterprises like these three companies to deploy Java applications on leading commercial open source infrastructure software. The combined stack gives enterprises and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) a low-cost alternative to proprietary application development.
For more information on additional Ingres solutions using Red Hat’s JBoss Enterprise Middleware please visit http://www.ingres.com/redhat.
About Ingres Corporation
Ingres is a leading open source database management company. We are one of the largest open source companies in the world and the pioneer of the New Economics of IT, providing open source solutions at a dramatically reduced cost compared with proprietary software vendors. As a leader in the New Economics of IT, Ingres delivers low cost and accelerated innovation to more than 10,000 customers worldwide.
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