Re: Time to dust off your Ingres migration skills

Joshua Berkus wrote:

>> Aligning yourself with comments from Monash reflects poorly on you.
>
> I wasn't familiar with Mr. Monash before.  My apologies for linking to
> him, then!

You will have seen Simon Riggs comments on this.

> Note that the rename of the company and the "new direction" has been
> similarly received by other news sources.

Most that I've seen have been fairly neutral reports of fact.  None that
I've seen have riffed on it much.

> And by customers; the way I
> found out about it is that a company called me about migration to
> Postgres from Ingres and sent me the link as why they were looking into
> it.

Oh dear.  One would hope that as a matter due diligence they'd check
with the company or the user groups to see if any of his claims hold
up. They don't. New development continues apace; new customers are
signing up, and revenue is way up. All that has happened is the
marketing team has chosen a new focus. As you noted yourself recently,
getting media attention for a DBMS is a tough job. So they've looked
for another door to push on.  Good for them.

If anything, a new product line that utterly depends on the core
products should reassure everyone that the core products are still core!

> If I were an Ingres geek, I'd be looking hard at establishing a
> developer community outside of Actian corp.  Let me know if you want to
> set up a fund with SPI!

I think we'd better wait until I'm "rehabilitated" here before pursuing
that, but the kindness of your offer is noted.

--
Roy

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