Ingres 9.3 is now available with an increased focused on migration from other database solutions. With the Oracle takeover of MySQL, we are seeing a number of customers that are looking for other options to avoid vendor lock in and the uncertainly about the future of MySQL. Several members of the community have been working with the Ingres staff on building tools/ scripts for migrating to Ingres. If you have some ideas and would like to contribute in this area please let us know. The Ingres community wiki has a number of ways to get involved with and the team is always looking to welcome new users.

Ingres 9.3 has implemented a number of key features that will help assist application developers with the migration. Ingres 9.3 offers support for:

Like for Long Objects to facilitate porting FOSS applications
Identity columns
Named results
Extended .Net support
One click configuration support for common workloads
Liferay application support
Support for table procedures
This isn’t a complete list of features that will aid developers in the seamless migration from other databases but is a good sampling to pique interest. The full list can be found on the Ingres products page. There is a webinar that walks through the various features with Christine Normile, Sr. Product Mgr for Ingres listed on the Ingres On Demand Webinar site.

If you are new to Ingres there also is a great selection of on demand webinars to help you get started. Topics includes Getting started with Ingres, Ingres for Oracle users, How to manage Ingres, How to backup your data and How to import your data are just a sampling to get you started.

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