Ingres Partners With PROGRAMMIERFABRIK to Support Open Source in Austria

Ingres Corporation, the leading open source database management company and pioneer of the New Economics of IT, announced today that PROGRAMMIERFABRIK GmbH has joined its partner program, furthering its expansion of business activities on the Austrian market. PROGRAMMIERFABRIK develops tailor-made software for financial service companies, software companies and government institutions. Adopting Ingres Database allows PROGRAMMIERFABRIK customers to reduce capital expenditure without sacrificing security or performance and offers a truly viable alternative to proprietary solutions, such as Oracle 11g, IBM DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server, particularly for mission-critical applications.

“We have elected to include Ingres database in our portfolio and see it as a valued addition,” said Wilfried Seyruck, managing director, PROGRAMMIERFABRIK GmbH. “For far too long there was no real alternative to the overpriced database solutions of proprietary software providers. Ingres Database is the first solution to offer the same reliability and performance at a fraction of the cost of proprietary solutions, as well as market leading open source standards.”

PROGRAMMIERFABRIK was looking for a database that could assist in the fast, professional and high-quality execution of IT projects, BI projects, and deployment of technology. Choosing a database with high caliber support services played a key role in this decision.

“Ingres is the only commercial open source database to offer partners full 24x7 support, which is crucial when it comes to mission-critical applications. That is a unique selling point in our opinion, and one which makes Ingres stand out from other large and international groups,” continued Seyruck . “Furthermore Ingres boasts a long development history, and offers proven, mature open source technology that combines know-how, expertise and market stability.”

PROGRAMMIERFABRIK is looking forward to offering a more open source model. As a former certified Oracle partner, the company already has considerable experience in the area of proprietary database solutions; however, PROGRAMMIERFABRIK feels that the time is ripe to nudge customers in the direction of open source and promote Ingres solutions.

“The database market has always tended to be conservative, but there is no doubt that organizations are now looking to free themselves from their financial and technical dependence on proprietary solutions. A period of economic downturn generally increases the propensity of enterprises to accept change, particularly when – as is the case with databases – there is a savings potential of millions,” commented Seyruck. “The market is currently demanding new, more flexible business models – which is where Ingres comes into its own.”

PROGRAMMIERFABRIK has long maintained a successful partnership with JBoss and Red Hat, and with Ingres Database on board, it can now offer a holistic operating environment with open source and open standards at its foundation.

“We are delighted to welcome PROGRAMMIERFABRIK as our new partner in Austria,” said Bertram Mandel, vice president sales & services and managing director of Ingres Germany. “The Austrian market offers huge potential for open source solutions. We realize of course, that companies are not going to be switching their databases to open source overnight. Rather, we see this as a gradual process that will be enabled over reliable and innovative technology and visionary enterprises. We are therefore very happy that PROGRAMMIERFABRIK places another strong partner at our side with whom we can drive forward the paradigm shift.”

About PROGRAMMIERFABRIK GmbH

As a services provider, PROGRAMMIERFABRIK specializes in the development of tailor-made Business Intelligence and Multi Tier (J2EE and .NET) solutions. Founded in 1993, the company currently has approx. 80 employees at its offices in Linz, Vienna and the Hagenberg Software Park. Its key clients include financial service companies, industry, software vendors and government institutions. GRZ IT Center Linz GmbH has also had a stake in PROGRAMMIERFABRIK since 11 September 2006. For further information, please visit www.programmierfabrik.at.

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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