Infor is the first ERP Partner of INGRES, I am sure we are going to see more on these lines in the future:

Roger Burkhardt, president and chief operating officer at Ingres, positioned the move as signaling "the first step" in what he said will be a burgeoning relationship with Infor. The partnership is not exclusive and he also expects Ingres to strike similar relationships with other enterprise applications players, with a particular focus on meeting the needs of different vertical industries.

Ingres represents an alternative to other databases in the market, including those from proprietary relational players Oracle Corp. and Microsoft Corp., which also have their own applications businesses. open-source vendor Ingres has no intention of buying an ERP company and so doesn't present a competitive threat to potential applications partners, Burkhardt said.

Ingres and Infor are collaborating on developing open-source software to run on the Ingres 2006 open-source database and Ingres Enterprise Access middleware, which is currently a proprietary-source product. Infor is in the process of certifying its Adage ERP software, targeted at process manufacturers to run on both Ingres' database and middleware.

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Prashanth Rai