VALENCIA, Spain, May 03, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Ingres Corporation, the leading open source database management company and pioneer of the New Economics of IT, announced today that the company will be participating in the Red Hat & JBoss EMEA Partner Summit 2010 from May 2-5, at the Valencia Congress Center in Valencia, Spain. As a premium sponsor, Ingres will play an active role at this week's summit and attendees are encouraged to attend demonstrations and presentations hosted by Ingres on current open source trends and technologies during a keynote, breakout session, workshop, and roundtable; all taking place on Tuesday, May 4, 2010. Ingres CEO Roger Burkhardt will keynote the event and share the latest on Ingres VectorWise, a groundbreaking database technology that delivers the performance required to analyze today's exploding quantity of customer data to enable instant profit maximization.

This year's Red Hat & JBoss EMEA Partner Summit will focus on open source middleware, cloud computing and virtualization. The seminars, discussions and workshops are aimed at helping distributors, system integrators, ISVs, OEMs and resellers to find and develop new ideas for the expansion of their business models.

"We are honored to be taking such an active role in this year's Red Hat & JBoss EMEA Partner Summit," said Roger Burkhardt, president and CEO, Ingres. "Partners are an integral part of Ingres' business strategy and in working with Red Hat, one of the leading open source company's in the world, we look forward to cultivating new partnerships and growing existing ones." As one of the key partners, Ingres is helping to get the ball rolling at this year's event with a variety of presentations.

Keynote -- On May 4 at 10:00 a.m. CET, Ingres President and CEO Roger Burkhardt will speak in a keynote presentation titled, "Competitive Edge Through Open Source Innovation." Burkhardt will explain why open source is the business model of the future and the benefits ISVs can achieve by leveraging open source solutions for SaaS and cloud applications. He will also discuss the latest innovation in the database industry, Ingres VectorWise.

Breakout Session -- On May 4 at 12:10 p.m. CET, Bertram Mandel, vice president sales and services and managing director, Ingres Germany GmbH, will host the breakout session, "Ingres: Partners Are the Core of Our Business." The presentation will review the Ingres partner program and highlight how partnerships are central to the Ingres strategy. Mandel will also discuss why leading analyst firms have named Ingres as the only open source database on the market suitable for business-critical environments.

Roundtable -- On May 4 at 15:20 p.m. CET, Olaf Laber, director of business development, Ingres, will host the round table "Accelerating the Future -- The Ingres Partner Plus Program." Laber will provide details of the new Ingres Partner Plus Program and will highlight the positive effects of partnerships and collaborations for ISVs, while demonstrating how Red Hat "Advanced Partners" and Red Hat "Ready Partners" can benefit from the program.

Workshop -- On May 4 from 13:50 to 17:55 p.m. CET, Alexander Thiem, consultant professional services, Ingres, will offer a workshop on "How to Migrate from Oracle to Ingres." In this technical training and simulation session, Thiem will offer a short demonstration on how to migrate from Oracle to Ingres and will show how to set up an Ingres Database server for JBoss AS and JBoss Developer Studio.

Ingres and Red Hat agreed to a strategic partnership in 2009, which has resulted in a scalable and coordinated software stack, comprising Ingres Database, Red Hat's Enterprise Linux operating system and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. The Ingres Development Stack for JBoss offers ISVs worldwide a low-cost alternative to proprietary development applications, in a purely open-source-based infrastructure for business-critical applications to the marketplace. More information on the stack can be found here: www.ingres.com/about/why-ingres/ingres-development-stack-for-jboss.php For more information and to register for the 2010 Red Hat & JBoss EMEA Partner Summit, please visit https://emea-partner-summit.com/.

About Ingres Corporation 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 open source solutions at 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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