Islandia, New York-based CA released the Ingres code under an open source license in August and has now proclaimed it to be ready for mission-critical applications with enterprise-level support and services options.
Three levels of enterprise-class support are available, as well as free support via CA’s Knowledge Base technical document, forum and mailing list site. The three levels of paid-for support are Fasttrack Developer, Standard Production, and Premium, CA’s highest proactive level of support.
The company is also offering education and training programs based around Ingres, as well as services and assessments around performance tuning, upgrades, and migration, among other things.
Ingres r3 is available for download now under the CA Trusted Open Source License, a modification of the Open Source Initiative approved Common Public License, and supports high-availability clusters, scalable database clusters, table partitioning and indexing, and parallel query processing.
The new version also supports on-line table and index reorganization as well as improved support for 64-bit environments, including 64-bit database cache enablement, improved query execution, and addressability of 64-bit file systems.
As well as Linux and Windows, Ingres r3 is due for release on both 32- and 64-bit versions of Sun Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX, HP Tru64, and HP OpenVMS in early 2005. Meanwhile, local versions in French, German, and Japanese will be available later this year.
