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CA announces winners of The 'Ingres million-dollar challenge'

Our Corporate Bureau
18 May 2005

Mumbai: Computer Associates International, Inc. today announced the winners of its 'Ingres million dollar challenge' The winners delivered migration toolkits from Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL to CA's Ingres r3 open source platform.

The challenge was designed to leverage the global talent pool of the open source community, while providing substantial financial compensation to those who successfully met its requirements. Under its terms, open source developers were invited to create solutions that enable users of popular databases to migrate to Ingres. Qualifying solutions were eligible for cash awards up to $400,000, with a total purse of $1 million.

Reviewed by a panel of independent judges, the winning projects were:

  • Shift2Ingres, an Oracle migration toolkit submitted by of New Delhi, India, which won the top prize of $400,000;
  • EzyMigrate, a SQL Server toolkit submitted by of Karnataka, India, which was awarded $100,000;
  • DbConverter, a MySQL toolkit submitted by of New York, which received $50,000.

"We are grateful for the hard work and creativity of the open source developers who participated in our challenge, and we will continue working with the open source community to develop migration tools for Ingres," said Tony Gaughan, senior vice president of development at CA. "With these tools, organisations can easily and cost-effectively transition away from proprietary databases to take advantage of Ingres'' highly scalable, feature-rich open source database platform."

Submissions were registered on SourceForge. Judges included Robin Bloor, Partner, Hurwitz & Associates; Tony Gaughan, senior vice president of development at CA; Gavin King, Founder of Hibernate, JBoss, Inc; Alan Runyan, Founder and Lead Architect of the Plone content management system; Dr. Michael Stonebraker, Founder and CTO of StreamBase Systems.

Shift2Ingres: Oracle Migration Toolkit: Shift2Ingres is a schema, data and application migration toolset for Oracle databases and applications, including those that use PL / SQL. It uses a superbly designed, easy-to-use Java GUI to configure and perform the migration of tables and their underlying data, views, grants, sequences, PL / SQL procedures and functions, triggers and other schema objects to from Oracle to Ingres r3 databases.

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