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Ingress II to be ported to Linux




who said commercial DBs aren't ported? maybe Oracle will see the light?

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From: Bob Griffith <bob.griffith@gsbpop.uchicago.edu>
Subject: CA to port Ingres II to Linux
Date: Thu,  9 Jul 1998 09:01:21 GMT

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The NAIUA (North American Ingres Users Association) would like to
announce that Computer Associates has committed to porting the Ingres
II RDBMS to Linux by the end of Q3 1998.  It will be included on the
UNIX Software Development Kit which will be available for free on the
CA Web site at http://www.cai.com.
(Note: the SDK currently available on CA's web site is for Windows
NT only and does not yet include Ingres for Linux)

Ingres II is the latest version of the distributed database suite that
pioneered RDBMS technology.  By porting Ingres to Linux, CA introduces
world-class mission-critical data storage to a quickly maturing free
UNIX variant.  The list of Ingres features is long and colorful, but
the main points are distributed data access, two-phase commit, variable
page size, row-level locking, binary large objects (BLOBS), enterprise
gateways to legacy data, full 3GL and 4GL support including interfaces
for C, C++, ODBC, and others.

Ingres II for Linux was demoed with Red Hat at CA-World 98 and will be
available for Linux platforms running Red Hat 2.0 pl27 as well as other
compatible versions.  It will be free with the Ingres II SDK for UNIX.
Support structures have not been determined by CA at this time.


Computer Associates Background:
Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA), with headquarters
in Islandia, N.Y., is the world leader in mission-critical business
software. The company develops, licenses and supports more than 500
integrated products that include enterprise computing and information
management, application development, manufacturing and financial
applications. CA has over 11,000 people in 160 offices in 43 countries
and had revenue of $4.5 billion in calendar year 1997. CA can be
reached by visiting http://www.cai.com on the World Wide Web,
emailing info@cai.com, or calling 1-516-342-5224.


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Bob Griffith                                  tech_tools@naiua.org       
NAIUA Technology Committee Chairman           phone: (773)702-0326
NAIUA Web Site - http://www.naiua.org         fax:   (773)702-0233