[Info-Ingres] IngresII Licensing

[Lucky Leavell]

On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Paul White wrote:

> Lucky writes...
> 
> > Unfortunately, it has been out of support for a LONG time. We were going
> > to migrate to Icebreaker but the "new" Ingres wants nearly twice as much
> > as was paid for IngresII! So much for "open source". I found a couple of
> > references to support.ca.com/techbases/ingres but that appears long gone
> > at least to out-of-support dudes.
> 
> IngresII is not open source. Also I dont think "open source" means free or
> cheap. It takes time and people to develop and maintain the greatest
> database in the world.
> 
I know IngresII is not and never was open source but my client paid full 
for it in 1999. I was referring to the Icebreaker product which is open
source unless you want patches. CA offered support from Updates Only to 
Premium 24x7 but the new Ingres only offers a prohibitive 
one-size-fits-all which is the ONLY reason we are staying with an eight 
year old product which has been absolutely rock solid. It would appear 
that Ingres has written the SMB market off.

Thank you, 
Lucky