Barclays Bank Plc has given Ask Computer Systems Inc an $8m contract for Ingres relational database licences: the agreement covers licences for further deployment of existing Ingres applications worldwide, and their deployment in its UK branches; the applications, developed using Ingres/Windows4GL, will be accessed from X-terminals connected to Ingres databases on Unix servers – the bank is using RS/6000s – linked back to the central corporate data held in DB2 databases on IBM Corp mainframes.
