Ingres Announces Support of OSGeo
First Enterprise Class DBMS Vendor to Lend Support to Prestigious Open Source Geospatial Technology Forum
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. and VICTORIA, British Columbia, Sept. 24 -- Ingres Corporation, the leading open source information management company, today announced at the FOSS4G 2007 (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial) conference that it is supporting OSGeo (Open Source Geospatial Foundation). OSGeo is widely recognized for supporting collaborate development of open geospatial technologies and projects important to business, the environment, and society.
"Like Ingres technology, geospatial technology provides insights from complex data. These insights lead to break through solutions and innovative thinking in areas as diverse as oil and gas exploration, city planning, meteorology, and hydrology," said Deb Woods, Ingres vice president of product management. "Ingres technology, when coupled with our open source know-how and decades of building mission critical systems, has a natural role to play in developing powerful GIS (Geographic Information Systems) applications. We look forward to working closely with OSGeo and its members."
"We are excited to have Ingres show their support for OSGeo and its mission," said Frank Warmerdam, president of OSGeo. "Having an open source, international company like Ingres working alongside OSGeo is a real, tangible way of helping us reach our common goals. Both OSGeo and Ingres are committed to providing open source solutions that ensure high quality and interoperability for projects than can span the globe."
Geospatial Technology & OSGeo
Geospatial technology combines spatial software and analytical methods with terrestrial or geographic datasets. During geospatial analysis, for example, a powerful database is an essential part of the creation and manipulation of images, maps, diagrams, charts, 3-D views and associated datasets. Within OSGeo, incubated projects such as MapBuilder and Mapbender have graduated to full projects with many more in the incubation stage. Other OSGeo projects include additional web mapping, desktop applications, geospatial libraries, a metadata catalog, and other collaborative projects focused on public education and data. OSGeo projects also include grassroots initiatives to help organize free geospatial data, develop educational curriculum, publish a regular open source geospatial journal, and more. More than a dozen Local Chapters are also being established around the world and across several language groups.
One of the most well-known OSGeo open source projects is MapServer (https://mapserver.osgeo.org/mapserverhttp://www.osgeo.org/mapserver), an open source development environment for building spatially-enabled web mapping applications and services, which has amassed more than 100,000 users. Originally developed at the University of Minnesota, MapServer is now maintained by a vibrant community of developers around the world and illustrates the collaborative nature of the OSGeo mission. MapServer is fast, flexible and can be integrated into most GIS environments since it runs on all major operating systems and works with almost any web server.
At FOSS4G07, developers and users of open source geospatial software from around the globe will meet to discuss new directions, exciting implementations, and burgeoning business opportunities in the field of open source geospatial software. The 2006 FOSS4G conference attracted more than 500 attendees from 48 countries with this year's conference poised for even larger attendance.
About the Open Source Geospatial Foundation
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation, or OSGeo, is a not-for-profit organization with 6 official chapters around the globe and 59 charter members, whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open geospatial technologies and data. The foundation provides financial, organizational and legal support to the broader open source geospatial community. It also serves as an independent legal entity to which community members can contribute code, funding and other resources, secure in the knowledge that their contributions will be maintained for public benefit. OSGeo also serves as an outreach and advocacy organization for the open source geospatial community, and provides a common forum and shared infrastructure for improving cross-project collaboration. The Foundation's projects are all freely available and useable under an OSI-certified open source license.
For more information, visit: www.osgeo.org/
About Ingres
Ingres Corporation is the leading Open Source Information Management software and services company, created in November 2005 as part of a partnership between CA (NYSE:CA) and Garnett & Helfrich Capital. Based on more than 25 years of technology investment, Ingres Corporation offers a product family of enterprise-class, highly scalable databases and tools currently being used by major global customers and partners. Ingres's database technology also is embedded in a large number of major third-party software offerings including CA's primary product offerings -- Unicenter and eTrust. Based in Redwood City, California, Ingres also has major development, sales and support centers in Islandia, Long Island, and Slough, England, and supports customer implementations in more than 58 countries around the world.
Additional information is available at www.ingres.com/ or (650) 587-5500.
Source: Ingres Corporation
CONTACT: Leigh Anne Varney, of Varney Business Communication,
+1-415-387-7250, la@varneybusiness.com, for Ingres Corporation
Web site: www.ingres.com
http://www.osgeo.org
