Details on Ingres Open Source Database Available Immediately Through Red Hat Exchange

Slough, UK — 18 June 2008 – Ingres Corporation, a leading provider of open source database Exchange (RHX) and details of the company’s open source product, Ingres Database, are available immediately via RHX as part of the company’s software catalog. RHX is focused on helping organisations of all sizes access the benefits of business software stacks powered by open source.

The Ingres Database is designed for mission-critical, enterprise-class environments. The Ingres database software offers high-volume transaction processing, high availability, multi-platform support and security for mission-critical application deployments. In addition, Ingres supports a variety of integrated development environments to promote application development on its database. Ingres Database customers can gain critical information regarding the Ingres Database via RHX at rhx.redhat.com.

Red Hat Exchange (RHX) extends Red Hat’s open source architecture strategy to include integrated business application solutions from open source partners built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss platform software. Through RHX, customers are given the opportunity to obtain information on leading business solutions from Red Hat software partners — such as databases, customer resource management, business intelligence, messaging, and collaboration.

By providing choice to the marketplace, Ingres and Red Hat were able to provide an enterprise mission critical solution for AAH Pharmaceuticals, the UK’s leading distributor of pharmaceutical and healthcare products and services to pharmacies, hospitals, and doctors. AAH Pharmaceuticals has deployed a high availability solution where the organisation takes advantage of Red Hat’s clustering solutions and the high availability features available only in the Ingres database, such as point in time restore, hot online backup, and parallel backup and recovery.

“Open source is all about offering users a choice, and we are excited to be a part of Red Hat Exchange for this very reason,” said Deb Woods, vice president of product management for Ingres. “We are a long-time partner of Red Hat, and proud to be one of the newest members of RHX. This further validates the importance of having the best of breeds from both worlds – the open source database and the Linux operating system – working together to bring solutions to customers. ”

“We are thrilled to team with Ingres around its enterprise-grade open source database,” said   Matt Mattox, director, ISV Alliances at Red Hat. “Ingres is an active partner and is already collaborating with RHX member Alfresco on a content management solution. With RHX, we are focused on providing choice to our customers and look forward to continuing our relationship with leading vendors like Ingres.”

At the RHX web site, customers have access to application profiles, user ratings, reviews, and free trials from participating partners.