With more than 3 million lines of code and over 10,000 business critical
deployments, how did Ingres take advantage of its roots as one of the
earliest relational database management systems -- implemented as an open
source project at UC Berkeley and 25-year closed source product history -- to
make it the industry's best case study for today's open source developers
looking to build tomorrow's corporate data center? This session will focus on
Ingres's product rebirth and examine the technical lessons learned. From
choosing the open source components from which to build a community site, to
preparing and sanitizing the source code and evaluating build processes, SVP
of Engineering Emma McGrattan will outline guiding principles for conquering
skepticism about adopting an ... (more)