Ingres Offers Combined Open Source Stack for Data-Rich Business Applications

Ingres Corp., an open source database management company, announced 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 Company said the Ingres Development Stack for JBoss is now available as a 90-day evaluation at 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.

To make it easier for developers, Ingres noted, 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.

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