[Info-ingres] License for commercial project

Roy Hann specially at processed.almost.meat
Mon Jan 5 00:42:27 UTC 2015


twenty-six at b-mint.net wrote:

> On 04/01/2015 20:41, mike_cu80 at yahoo.com wrote:
>> Hi
>> I want to start a new commercial Web site and am looking instead of going with Mysql to go with Ingres. So just a couple of questions if you please :
>>
>> 1.what is the license scheme? can I use Ingres community for such a project or am I required to get a license? If yes,what is the cost?
>>
>> 2.Any good guides on how to install the server side and any info dedicated to how to use Ingres for the web?
>>
>> thanks
>>
> I'm pretty sure you'll need a commercial license.

I'm pretty sure he won't.  I'd be delighted if he did; he could buy a
commercial license from me, but happily (for him) he can use the
community version for anything he wants.

> Have you thought about Postgres?  IMHO Postgres is the best "free" DBMS 
> available at the moment.

Well IMHO Ingres is, so where does that leave us?  :-)

Roy




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