Primekey Integrates Ingres Database into Global Security Solutions

Leading ISV Ports Security Products to Ingres Database in Recognition of Market Growth and Leadership

Redwood City, Calif. and STOCKHOLM, Sweden - May 12, 2010 - Ingres Corporation, the leading open source database management company and pioneer of the New Economics of IT, announced today that PrimeKey Solutions, the leading open source PKI (public key infrastructure) company in the world has migrated its technology to Ingres Database. The company based its decision on the proven market position of Ingres as the leading open source database provider, lowering total cost of ownership and offering superior support to its ISV partners.

PrimeKey is a Swedish based open source security software pioneer, providing enterprise class solutions to key public and commercial sector clients worldwide including the Swedish Police, Societe Generale, several national Trust Centres, Bankgirocentralen BGC (The Swedish Clearing House of Payments) and several Fortune 500 U.S. enterprises. With operations in over 20 countries, PrimeKey has built its business around an open standards methodology, supporting cost effective, yet highly resilient security solutions such as Enterprise Java Bean Certificate Authority (EJBCA) and Signserver.

PrimeKey technologies' underlying database is business critical as a store for all encryption and security data. Responding to end customer demand, PrimeKey selected Ingres Database based on an increase in popularity of the database among developers, business leaders, and partners worldwide.

Ingres has a proven track record in deployments where securing data is crucial to national, public and personal security. Security related features, such as role separation, fine-grained security auditing, and security alarms, help administrators monitor and analyze all attempts to access information and enable proactive and preventive security measures. More information about Ingres security features can be found here.

"We chose Ingres as our de facto database due to both the level of support and cost effectiveness offered," said Konstantin Papaxanthis, CEO, PrimeKey. "As an ISV operating on a global scale and providing such business critical solutions, our choice of technology partners is crucial in our ability to meet our customers' exacting needs without compromising on price. For us, a migration to Ingres not only helps satisfy this objective, but also their continuing support with regards to marketing and technology has impressed us throughout our relationship."

Ingres has made major investments to answer the demand for migration tools so companies can move off Oracle. These tools include advanced graphical user interfaces that are much more intuitive than the scripts previously available, and they will also manage the migration of all database schema objects as well as complex database procedures. The Ingres tools are easily accessible on SourceForge at: sourceforge.net/projects/ingresmigtools/ or via the Ingres Community Website at community.ingres.com/wiki/IngresMigrationToolSet.

"Many ISVs are moving away from Oracle/MySQL in favor of a genuine open source solution and we have certainly seen an uptick in ISVs and Systems Integrators interested in working with Ingres," said Roger Burkhardt, CEO, Ingres. "PrimeKey joins our rapidly expanding ISV community at an exciting time for Ingres and our partner ecosystem. As an increasing number of software companies respond to the changing economic environment and recent acquisition activity; Ingres emerges as a trusted business partner due to our independence, solid standing in the market and ability to provide appropriate marketing support, helping businesses thrive."

To download the latest EJBCA 3.10.0 release, with support for Ingres 9.3, please visit sourceforge.net/projects/ejbca/files/ejbca3/ejbca_3_10_0/.

About PrimeKey Solutions AB

PrimeKey is the world's leading open source PKI (public key infrastructure) company, founder and commercial force behind some of the most downloaded open source PKI projects - EJBCA and SignServer.

As an open source security software pioneer, PrimeKey provides enterprise class solutions to key public and commercial sector clients worldwide. Organizations turn to PrimeKey's open source software platforms to implement security solutions (such as e-passports, product authenticity, document signing, digital signatures, unified digital identities) and their associated high speed and high availability validation.

PrimeKey's enterprise class integration, training and support services and dedication to open standards help customers achieve their organizational goals.

About Ingres Corporation

Ingres is a leading open source database management company. We are one of the largest open source companies in the world and the pioneer of the New Economics of IT, providing open source solutions at a dramatically reduced cost compared with 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.

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