I got an interesting email from Bill Wittel up in Gainesville. He's the new Partner Account Manager for Ingres. Ingres?!? anybody remember Ingres? They were one of the first open-source RDBMS systems. Yes, open-source as in GPL. It was developed at U Cal Berkeley, I believe. They then went commercial. The academic side started a new database: PostgreSQL. Anyway, Ingres had a good run. A friend of mine earned a good living in the 90s being an Ingres consultant. Then Ingres got bought by Ask, Inc. Then they got bought by CA. Somehow they're re-emerged from the Bataan Death March that most CA products go on. Anyway, they're apparently back and billing themselves as the only enterprise-class open source database. I'm sure Sun would debate that after paying $1B for MySQL, but nonetheless. There isn't a local Ingres Users' group yet, but if you're interested, contact me or Bill Wittel or RIchard Granath (Ingres Sales Rep) in the area.You can email them at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it There's a national Ingres users' group. Maybe they can leverage off of that. We'll be keeping an eye on ths one.

 See the wikipedia article on Ingress, it looks pretty much like I remember things.