Ingres Named a 2009 SD Times 100 Award Winner

Award Highlights Company`s Leadership in the Advancement of Alternative and Open
Source Database Technologies
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Ingres Corporation, the leading open source database management company and
pioneer of the New Economics of IT, announced today that Ingres has been
recognized as a 2009 SD Times 100 award winner in the Database & Data Tools
category. Judged by the editors of SD Times, the award recognizes the top
innovators and leaders in multiple software development industry areas. Featured
in the June 15, 2009, issue of the newspaper and on SDTimes.com, the listing
spotlights companies, organizations and individuals that most broadly "set the
agenda" for software development managers, developers, and the industry through
leadership and innovation during the previous calendar year.

Ingres and its growing community of software developers, both inside and outside
the commercial company, were honored for extraordinary 2008 momentum on the
technological front. Ingres and the Ingres development community rolled out a
series of advanced tools for and by software developers, and introduced
technology enhancements to further simplify the process of using an open source
alternative to expensive, proprietary database solutions.

"This award demonstrates the remarkable innovation of the Ingres community,"
said Roger Burkhardt, CEO of Ingres. "We firmly believe that the open source
model fosters innovative solutions as well as dramatically reduced costs and we
are delighted to see these advances in programmer tools and database
capabilities recognized by SD Times."

SD Times editors acknowledged the introduction of Ingres Database 9.2, the
leading open source database that helps organizations develop and manage
business critical applications at an affordable cost, the release of an open
source version of Ingres OpenROAD, a leading application development and
deployment solution, and the award-winning Ingres Café (Consolidated Application
Foundation for Eclipse), an open source application development tool which
brings together in one bundle the components developers need to create and
deploy rich Java applications. All three products were released in 2008.

"The software development industry has always been led by innovation, and that`s
true even in today`s challenging economic climate," said Alan Zeichick,
editorial director of BZ Media's SD Times. "When choosing the 2009 SD Times 100
winners, we carefully considered each organization's products and services,
reputation with enterprise development managers, and the new ideas and thought
leadership that it has brought to the industry. Thanks to companies like Ingres,
the art of software development continues to advance at a rapid pace."

As a leading open source database management company, Ingres works with other
open source companies to build and piece together many proven business-critical
Java-based application tools. Software developers are turning to these products
for their ease-of-use, inclusion of features that are actually needed, and
ultimate cost-effectiveness for their customers.

A complete listing of the SD Times 100 can be found at
http://www.sdtimes.com/link/33549.

About BZ Media and BZ Media`s SD Times

BZ Media LLC (www.bzmedia.com) is a high-tech media company combining the best
of print and Web-based publishing, offering industry-leading magazines,
newspapers, Web sites and conferences.

BZ Media`s SD Times (www.sdtimes.com) is the twice-monthly newspaper of record
for the software development industry. SD Times reaches more than 60,000
subscribers in 131 countries. SD Times was recognized by Media Business Magazine
as the fastest-growing IT publication in 2007.

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 its more than 10,000 customers
worldwide. For more information, visit www.ingres.com.

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

Ingres Corporation
Dominic Garcia, 650-587-5565
Corporate Communications
dominic.garcia@ingres.com
or
Atomic PR
Allyson Stinchfield, 415-402-0230
allyson@atomicpr.com

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