One of the Largest Oracle Resellers in Germany Will Now Take Ingres Open Source Solutions to Market

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. and FRANKFURT - September 21, 2009 – Ingres Corporation, the leading open source database management company and pioneer of the New Economics of IT, announced today it has entered into a reseller agreement with up to data professional services. As part of the agreement, up to data will take Ingres Database and corresponding professional services to market in Germany. up to data offers a comprehensive solutions portfolio spanning databases, business intelligence (BI), data warehousing, systems management, laboratory automation, and information systems. By opting to resell Ingres, in addition to Oracle, the up to data professional services group makes a valuable addition to its database portfolio and responds to the ever increasing demand for open source solutions for business critical applications.

  “We are already using Linux as the operating system for many of our clients, however, what began as a gimmick has since gained a real foothold and established itself as an integral part of our software solutions in business applications. We are now seeing the same trend at the database level – the market is evolving and our response is Ingres,” said Norbert Bittner, managing director, up to data professional services, GmbH. “When it comes to making the right choice, our clients rely on our expertise. After carrying out an exhaustive market analysis, we considered Ingres to be the only open source database with proven maturity in mission-critical applications. Ingres was able to meet the high demands we place on a database 100 percent of the time.”

 “We are thrilled that business customers are recognizing the significant advantages of commercial open source solutions,” said Bertram Mandel, vice president, sales and services and managing director, Ingres Germany. “The conventional license model with its high costs and long-term rigid contracts has outlived its purpose. These days, it serves merely to undermine the development of business critical innovations. With the Ingres subscription model, companies pay solely for the support and professional services they need. Ingres is flexible, reliable, and highly scalable and services can be tailored at any time to suit changing requirements and general conditions.”

 Up to data was impressed with the performance of Ingres Database as well as its high availability, security, and many other features engineered to handle business and mission critical applications. In addition, 24x7 support and a focus on continuous quality assurance were critical points for up to data professional services as this ensures code stability at all times.

 “We endeavour to provide our customers with a strong and professional long-term partnership on which we can continue to build. A key component of the Ingres company strategy is its professional, client-focused support, which is completely in tune with our own company philosophy,” added Bittner. “We are, and always will be, the first contact for our customers and we benefit additionally from each renewal, which certainly cannot be said of distribution agreements with proprietary solution providers.”

 Ingres and up to data professional services are planning a range of joint informational events for 2009. Registration details will be available at www.ingres.com.

About up to data Professional Services

up to data professional services was founded in 1992 and stands for innovative concepts in the consulting and services area. Our continuous growth is based on a widely positioned service portfolio and a pronounced service orientation. up to data is a competent full service provider in the area of infrastructure/databases and is experienced LIMS-Service-Provider in Life Science with a special focus on automated and validated production of registration reports.

In the interest of our customers, we are committed to configure customer information technology as efficiently as possible while utilizing their resources rationally and effectively. To achieve this, our personnel speak the customer’s language, i.e. our service is always oriented to the customer’s situation and their special needs and wishes. In a dialogue with our customers, we devise individual concepts and strategies for a wide variety of demands and then implement the projects successfully according to plan.

Ideas, creativity and teamwork are the most important building blocks, combined with the most current specialist know-how and modern IT-technology. Through constant training and skills development, we ensure that our employees’ knowledge is, and remains, state-of-the-art.

About Ingres

Ingres is the leading open source database management company. We are the world’s second largest open source company and the pioneer of the New Economics of IT, providing business-critical open source solutions at a dramatically reduced cost than proprietary software vendors. As a leader in the New Economics of IT, Ingres delivers low cost and accelerated innovation to more than 10,000 customers worldwide.

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