--- In Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com, "Martijn Tonies" wrote:

>
>
> > And immediately Thomas posts this, I get an email from ZDNet with
> > the following...
> >
> > <<I was just wondering whether you have any comment on CA selling
> > Ingres, only a year after it released it as an open source
> > database?
> >

http://sev.prnewswire.com/computer-electronics/20051107/NYM18107112005-1.html

> > Why do you think CA originally open-sourced Ingres? Why do you
> > think it has changed its plan? My deadline is 2pm today.>>
> >
> > So what do we want to say?
>
> Entirely my opinion of course ... but ...
>
> I don't think Ingres and OpenSource were a success at all. Now
> that CA is selling it, it probably shows that the whole "open
> sourcing" of Ingres was a way to cut down costs AND keep the
> customers "happy" in some way...
>
> Reminds me a bit of Borland :-)

"OpenSourcing a database is a gracious way of killing a non-profitable
database, but a database that is open source doesn't generate any more
revenue than a closed source database and hence, isn't of much value
to CA. Moreover, the competition from other open source databases may
have taken its toll on Ingres. Only the future will tell whether the
result of OpenSourcing and selling Ingres will result in an open
source database free of commercial demands that can become as capable
and solid as Firebird or PostgreSQL."

Just crazy words from a crazy Norwegian who knows nothing about CA or
Ingres.

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