Press Release
INGRES IS GRANTED CERTIFICATION FROM BEA SYSTEMS FOR ITS BEA WEBLOGIC® SERVER
BEA and Ingres Continue to Work Together to Offer Open Source, Mission Critical Solutions
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., September 6, 2007 - Ingres Corp., the leading open source information management product and services company, today announced it has received certification from BEA for its BEA WebLogic® Server (WLS). The two companies have been collaborating in response to demands from customers who run critical applications using a combination of WLS and the Ingres database.
The BEA WebLogic® Server is a fully featured, standards-based application server that is designed to provide the foundation on which enterprises can build reliable, scalable, and manageable applications. Ingres has been tested by BEA and can provide full transaction processing support including the important XA protocol essential for scalability in high volume transaction processing.
"I welcome this new milestone in our relationship with BEA, "said Roger Burkhardt, Ingres president and CEO. "This formal certification was requested by our customers and builds on years of effective interoperability between these products. We have customers who process over a billion dollars a day in transactions on Ingres and BEA WebLogic® Server and these formal testing processes help us better serve all our customers who rely on Ingres and BEA for their mission-critical applications."
The two companies continue to work together on areas of mutual interest including: virtualized environments and appliances, and real time and complex event processing environments.
"Ingres now offers their enterprise class database technology under an open source business model and we are glad to be able to respond to our mutual customer interest by formally certifying the Ingres database in conjunction with BEA WebLogic® Server," said Wai Wong, executive vice president, products at BEA Systems.
About Ingres Corporation
Ingres Corporation is a leading provider of open source information management services to the enterprise. Built on over 25 years of technology investment, Ingres is a leader in software and service innovation, providing the enterprise with proven reliability combined with the value and flexibility of open source. The company's partnerships with leading open source providers further enhance the Ingres value proposition. In particular, Ingres is working with leading business intelligence providers to deliver appliances that combine the benefits of open source with advanced reporting and data analysis capabilities. Based in Redwood City, California, Ingres also has major development, sales and support centers throughout the world, supporting thousands of customers in the United States and internationally. For more information, visit www.ingres.com.
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