As part of its effort to make the IT community more aware of its recently open-sourced INGRES database product, CA has created the Ingres Million Dollar Challenge.
http://www3.ca.com/Solutions/Collateral.asp?CID=61137&ID=1013
“As part of the announcement, CA presents the [b]Ingres Million Dollar Challenge[/b] to the open source community for development under CA?s Trusted Open Source License (CATOSL) programs.
To participate, download the Ingres software and deliver an operational software program that automatically converts, transforms and migrates data and applications from one or more of the following selected databases:
Oracle
Microsoft SQL Server
Sybase Adaptive Enterprise Server
IBM DB2 Universal
IBM Informix Dynamic Server
MySQL”
Will they give you a million dollars for your application? Not exactly – $400,000.00 is max prize- but the challenge may prove worthwhile. Check out the fine print at:
http://www3.ca.com/Files/SupportingPieces/ingres_challenge_tc2.pdf
[i]A post from Ramon Padillia[/i]