Ingres Expands Global Presence and Launches Into Japan

Ingres and NST Partnership Brings Breakthrough Database and Analytic Performance to Japanese Market

Redwood City, California — December 3, 2010 – Ingres Corporation, the leading open source database management company and pioneer of the New Economics of IT, today announced its expansion into the Japanese market via a new partnership with New System Technology (NST), a leading distributor of packaged applications to over 400 local enterprises, resellers, systems integrators (SI) and outsourcers throughout Japan.

NST, selected Ingres for its strong reputation and deep database capabilities, and will offer both Ingres 10 and Ingres VectorWise to its customer base across diverse industries such as finance, manufacturing, pharmaceutics and telecommunications.

“Customers around the world are realizing the value that business intelligence and analytics can bring to their organizations,” said Roger Burkhardt, president and CEO of Ingres worldwide. “The Ingres and NST partnership will offer an enterprise-class database and breakthrough analytics at a much lower price point to existing technologies, giving the Japanese market the ability to deliver rich analytics to all corners of the organization.”

Japan is a world economic power, with the third largest global economy. Entering the Japanese market supports Ingres’s commitment to delivering quality products to global markets.

"There is a strong desire from the Japanese partner community to offer more innovative and cost effective solutions to their customers,” said Nobuaki Noda, president of NST. “We chose to partner with Ingres because they offer our enterprise and midmarket customers a refreshing alternative to mainstream database and analytic database vendors and an opportunity to build complete enterprise solution stacks with Ingres and RedHat."

The Ingres database is an enterprise-grade transactional database used by over 10,000 customers worldwide. Ingres VectorWise, launched earlier this year, is a next generation analytic database that unlocks the power of modern commodity CPUs with a revolutionary database engine that leverages vector-based processing and on-chip memory to provide dramatic performance gains over other databases.

“Red Hat is pleased to build strong partnership with Ingres and NST in delivering innovative open source solutions to the Japan market” said Yuji Hirokawa, president, Red Hat Japan. “In test with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss middleware, the Ingres VectorWise database delivered compelling performance, and we are confident customers will welcome this solution for its greater value.”

"We are excited that NST has signed as our exclusive Japanese distributor," said Burkhardt. "This partnership marks a significant investment by both companies to provide Japanese partners and customers a compelling alternative to dominant proprietary database vendors.”

Ingres 10 and Ingres VectorWise are now available for download at www.ingres.com.

About Ingres Corporation

Ingres develops and markets the leading open source enterprise-grade relational database and a breakthrough analytic database, VectorWise, designed to support the growing need for analytics and business intelligence. Delivering on its promise of continued innovation, Ingres VectorWise delivers performance improvements of 10X to 80X that of comparable databases without the usual overheads of Business Intelligence environments. Suitable for enterprises and as an embedded database for ISVs and SaaS providers, Ingres VectorWise is quickly becoming a leader in big data management and data analysis for data-driven companies.

Ingres is a registered trademark of Ingres Corporation. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies.

About New Systems Technology

New System Technology (NST) is a Japanese company that publishes and distributes packaged software for large business corporations and large organizations in Japan. NST support customers’ efforts to maximize the performance, reliability, and efficiency of their IT Systems. NST’s loyal customers number more than 400, in diverse industries such as finance, manufacturing, pharmaceutics, telecommunications, data centre, outsourcers, and systems integrators.

About Red Hat, Inc.

Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions and an S&P 500 company, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with over 65 offices spanning the globe. CIOs ranked Red Hat as one of the top vendors delivering value in Enterprise Software for six consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value survey. Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with virtualization, applications, management and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide.