http://www.dbms2.com/2006/07/12/ingres%e2%80%99s-questionable-target-market/ Choices in data management and analysis Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:57:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 http://www.dbms2.com/2006/07/12/ingres%e2%80%99s-questionable-target-market/#comment-21103 DBMS2 — DataBase Management System Services»Blog Archive » Ingres tries to become relevant again Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:50:06 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/2006/07/12/ingres%e2%80%99s-questionable-target-market/#comment-21103 [...] Yes and no. To compete effectively in the mid-range OLTP relational database management system market, you need a product that’s much easier to administer than Oracle, and preferably easier even than Microsoft SQL*Server. Ingres doesn’t meet that standard. Until it does, it probably won’t have much of a market outside its current installed base. But some of Ingres’s strategies and directions are pretty clever, and may be interesting to people who’d never actually consider using Ingres technology. Specifically, Ingres has plans in the areas of appliances and database services, two subjects that are close to my heart. [...] [...] Yes and no. To compete effectively in the mid-range OLTP relational database management system market, you need a product that’s much easier to administer than Oracle, and preferably easier even than Microsoft SQL*Server. Ingres doesn’t meet that standard. Until it does, it probably won’t have much of a market outside its current installed base. But some of Ingres’s strategies and directions are pretty clever, and may be interesting to people who’d never actually consider using Ingres technology. Specifically, Ingres has plans in the areas of appliances and database services, two subjects that are close to my heart. [...]

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