Last August, CA announced open source ingres & its challenge.

Now consider this:

- less than 2,500 posts in the community forums since then
http://opensource.ca.com/projects/ingres/forum

- less than 10,000 users to start with
http://www.computerweekly.com/Article134656.htm

- no press releases since november:
http://www3.ca.com/solutions/presslist.asp?ID=1013

- a challenge with bad economics & no winners (was planned 21 Apr 05)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/36056.html
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=ingres+challenge
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?
ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/11-01-2004/0002349160&EDATE=

Might we conclude that Open Source Ingres is a dud?? If so, I pity
the CA marketing manager who has to figure out a way to spin this
into something positive.

We, on the other hand, can spin this in our favour:
- 3 big proprietary RDBMS's
- 2 (3 including PG) big OS databases
- all others seem to lack "long term credibility" for mainstream use