> > On a different note is the open source Ingres license similar with other
> > open source licenses ? In my understanding you can use the SW in your
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> And that's assuming you know how to test a new Ingres build properly,
> which, no offence, you probably don't. CA does.
Many Thanks, very usefull explanation. At this time we don't really intend
to do any changes, and if we will do, definitely will make all public (back
to CA). Apparently our marketing guys can not get straight answer from CA
if will keep selling licenses for Ingres, so this is the reason why we are
trying to compile under SCO Open Server as the first step. Given the
situation of the SCO group next step will be to port our application to
Linux and have allready the experience of compiling Ingres. I assume under
Linux it is much easier.
M Gutica
Emiliano Heyns - 23 Oct 2004 10:09 GMT
> Many Thanks, very usefull explanation. At this time we don't really intend
> to do any changes, and if we will do, definitely will make all public (back
> to CA). Apparently our marketing guys can not get straight answer from CA
> if will keep selling licenses for Ingres, so this is the reason why we are
> trying to compile under SCO Open Server as the first step.
The way I understand things, CA will no longer be selling licenses for
Ingres, but they *will* be selling Ingres *support*. I don't know what
level of support you'll be able to get if your target platform is
OpenServer.
> Given the
> situation of the SCO group next step will be to port our application to
> Linux and have allready the experience of compiling Ingres. I assume under
> Linux it is much easier.
For RPM-based Linux platforms (RedHat, SuSE, probably Mandrake, some
others) binary install packages are available. I personally wouldn't
bother compiling myself; as easy as it probably is, building your own
binaries constitutes a QA risk (cue previous argument about testing).
Emile