CA issues million dollar challenge to open source community

Posted in 2004

Topics: Migration, Import/Export & Data Conversion

lj — 7 Aug 2004 03:37:45 -0700 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

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

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My Name Is Bruce and I'm A Sock Puppet — Sat, 07 Aug 2004 22:05:08 +0100 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

lj wrote: > 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 Fair dinkum cobber! 400,000 Aussie dollars is nothing compared to the cost of migration, though! -- Strewth! Stick a sock in it, Sheila!

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Data Goob — Sun, 08 Aug 2004 07:30:28 -0400 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

lj wrote: > 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 Very interesting! Ingres r3 comes with a 4GL too. http://opensource.ca.com/projects/ingres/documents Download of the product was relatively painless, and a complete set of stuff to work with: esql, jdbc, odbc, vision 4gl etc. Looks like this could make things interesting. Curious to see how well it performs. MySQL, Ingres, ... ?