Credit crunch. Economic downturn. Budget cuts. Business is tough, and getting tougher by the day. Every decision has to justify itself commercially, so it’s a very simple question, “Do you want to continue paying for a licence fee for your enterprise database solution?”
Of course not, and why should you? So, if Ingres could show you a way to reduce your Capex by 100%, and then lower your TCO over a three-year period by as much as 50%, would you be interested? Of course you would. And the reason these massive savings are attainable in today’s economic climate is down to one thing; Open Source.
"The use of open-source DBMSs for mission-critical applications carries far more risk — the exception is Ingres. Ingres has been available for over 25 years and has a broad base of customers with mission-critical applications today. Issues of scalability, reliability and maturity are not a problem for the Ingres DBMS. If your organization wants to use one of the other two open source DBMSs, MySQL or Postgres Plus, for mission-critical applications, you may encounter many issues as the database grows in size and the number of concurrent users increases. Clients have reported issues with crashing, locking and lack of functionality in supporting large mission-critical applications."*
* 29 April 2009 Gartner – Cost Optimization with Open-Source DBMSs
