Companies Partner to Deliver Enterprise-Class Open Source Solution for Content Management

Slough, UK — 25th March 2008 — Ingres Corporation, a leading provider of open source database management software, today announced that its products have been certified by Alfresco, the leading open source alternative for enterprise content management. As part of their comprehensive reseller agreement, Ingres will leverage the Alfresco product line to deliver complete content management solutions to enterprise customers with all of the cost and flexibility benefits that an open source solution provides. In addition to the certification and reseller agreement, an integrated community bundle from Ingres and Alfresco will enable community developers to leverage a truly enterprise open source content management solution that is reliable, robust, secure, and can scale from the developer’s desktop to the enterprise data centre.

“Customers need rapid, cost effective solutions to manage growing quantities of unstructured data,” said Roger Burkhardt, president and CEO of Ingres. “Business and regulatory needs mandate secure and reliable solutions that scale rapidly and are inexpensive to deploy. This is why we have chosen to partner with Alfresco to provide an open source content management solution with enterprise-class capability from top to bottom.”

“We are pleased to join forces with Ingres as a database technology partner,” said John Powell, president and CEO of Alfresco.  “With the rapid adoption of open source software in the enterprise, more customers are looking for ways to easily deploy and buy support for best-of-breed applications such as Ingres and Alfresco. Ingres has a mature product, that is proven in thousands of mission critical installations.  The combination of Ingres and Alfresco means that customers can deploy an enterprise scale content management solution at an open source price point.”

“With Alfresco running on Ingres, customers that require a reliable, scalable, and secure document or enterprise content management solution on open source technologies, now have an option,” said Andres Wendt, CEO at uknow, a provider and integrator of web-based information management solutions. “We have tested the bundle thoroughly and have been very pleased with the results. We will benefit, as will many customers of Ingres and Alfresco, who require mission critical software solutions packaged in a cost effective, open source manner.”

“As a gold partner of Alfresco Software, we have been creating solutions with the Alfresco platform from its inception and have been involved in performance and scalability testing,” said Alex Lee, CEO of Lateral Minds, an enterprise content management specialist. “Customers, whether in the public sector, financial services, or healthcare industry, are now able to utilise open source technology for their mission critical enterprise-wide content management requirements – with a favourable TCO outcome. We encourage anyone looking to improve the value of their content management to evaluate Alfresco enterprise content management running on Ingres as a viable solution that is both reliable and secure.”

Content management systems for the enterprise demand rigorous capabilities, especially for the management of structured and unstructured data.  One of the biggest issues for enterprise customers worldwide is the need for reliability.  Ingres delivers solid performance along with enterprise features including online backup and online table reorganisation, native connection pooling support, robust and fast query optimisation, and 24/7 global support.

To learn more about the new community bundle please visit community.ingres.com or go to www.ingres.com/alfresco/.