Ingres Corporation, the leading open source database management company and pioneer of the New Economics of IT, announced today the availability of Ingres Database 10, the latest version of the company's flagship open source database product.

Ingres and Red Hat today announced plans to work closely together with Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) in the EMEA region.

The public sector is ignoring government guidelines on procuring open-source software, according to open source database company Ingres. At a roundtable event on Thursday, Ingres worldwide operations chief Steve Shine praised the guidelines--issued in February--but said they were being ignored because there is nobody in place to enforce them.

Ingres have made Ingres VectorWise generally available to download for free evaluation or commercially licence and say that an open source release for the accelerated database technology should be expected by the end of the year

Ingres has announced it is working with VectorWise to improve database performance through fully exploiting the capabilities of modern CPUs. They are planning to create Ingres/VectorWise, a new product which incorporates the new techniques, for release in mid-2010.

Novell and Ingres have announced a new cooperative agreement under which the Ingres database is now available within SUSE Studio as part of the SUSE Appliance Program

Novell partners with database vendor Ingres to make it easier to build and deploy software appliances -- but what about MySQL?

Shortly after the European Union approved Oracle’s takeover of Sun Microsystems (and MySQL), I interviewed Ingres President and CEO Roger Burkhardt about his views on the Oracle-MySQL combo. Here are his thoughts.

Cloud computing will fuel growth in open source software as companies try to manage costs, according to database heavyweight Ingres.