Welcome

Today's very challenging economy requires decisive moves by IT leaders to implement new and vastly more cost effective software models – at Ingres we call this the New Economics of IT. This approach combines proven commercial open source software with open standards implementation to dramatically lower total costs, and eliminate up front license costs and the vendor lock-in that comes with traditional licensing models.

Customer’s objections to legacy licensing model start with the lack of alignment between costs and business value and continue with the predatory practices that flow from vendor lock in. These practices allow proprietary vendors to raise customer costs even while the customer down-sizes in the middle of a recession. The New Economics of IT replaces this broken legacy software model with a simple subscription model that means no license fees and without the onerous terms that come with the license.

You now have a real choice to the broken legacy software models and the question you should ultimately ask yourself is – license fee or license free?

Roger Burkhardt
President and CEO
Ingres Corporation