*Result*: CA Revives Dormant Database.
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*This article reports on the plan of Computer Associates (CA) to open-source its Ingres database. According to Tony Gaughan, senior vice president at CA, such a plan would allegedly change the market dramatically, and that the company is apparently competitive with Oracle. Gaughan said that Ingres R3 will outperform Microsoft's SQL Server database and is attractive with regards to its price because it is open source. Although Gaughan could not site specific technical benchmarks, he said that when both databases are running on the same hardware, Ingres is increasingly competitive than the SQL Server. In opposition, Tom Rizzo, director of product management for SQL Sever at Microsoft, questioned Computer Associates' testing because it allegedly was not conducted within the industry benchmark Transaction Processing Performance Council. In a statement issued by Rizzo, Ingres is not one of the company's mainstream competitors and that Microsoft sees Ingres competing with the Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine, which will allegedly become the forthcoming SQL Server Express and is due in conjunction with SQL Server 2005 in the first half of 2005. According to Gaughan, Ingres is three to five development years ahead of the open source MySQL database.*
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