Computer Associates tries to shake the dust from its Ingres database product:
“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, the company says.”
$400,000? Not bad. The contest goes through Feb 1, 2005.
Now that the Tablet PC developer contest is coming to a close, why not gear up for a Tablet-minded conversion database utility and shoot for the CA prize :-)?