RE: CA issues million dollar challenge to open source community

Posted in 2004

Topics: Migration, Import/Export & Data Conversion

Alexey Sonkin — Mon, 9 Aug 2004 23:05:16 -0400 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Seems, this is IBM's response: "IBM donates Cloudscape to the ASF" http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/08/03/HNclouscape_1.html ------------------------------------------ Alexey Sonkin -----Original Message----- From: ljmalony@hotmail.com [mailto:ljmalony@hotmail.com] Subject: CA issues million dollar challenge to open source community Computer Associates (CA) issued a million dollar challenge to the open source community today, aimed at fostering the development of migration toolkits for its newly open-sourced Ingres r3 database. The cash will be distributed to developers who create solutions that enable users of Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase Adaptive Enterprise Server, IBM DB2 Universal Database, Informix, and/or MySQL to migrate to the Ingres r3 database platform. Qualifying solutions will be eligible for cash awards of up to $400,000 per developer. http://desktoplinux.com/news/NS6772955265.html sending to informix-list

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Fernando Nunes — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 10:52:40 +0100 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Alexey Sonkin wrote: > Seems, this is IBM's response: > > "IBM donates Cloudscape to the ASF" > http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/08/03/HNclouscape_1.html > Can a response be given before the action/question? :) Regards.