In the current economic climate, most companies are cutting back on expenses, however, open source companies are finding innovative ways to enable you to attend events without the costly price of travel. Ingres Corporation, a leading provider of open source database management software and support services, announced today that it is a gold sponsor of the JBoss Virtual Experience, a one-day free online conference focused on enterprise-class, open source middleware. The event will include sessions, live chats, and a Networking Café with open source leaders, executives, key developers, customers, and strategic partners. The JBoss Virtual Experience is scheduled for Wednesday, February 11, at www.jboss.com/virtualexperience.

As a gold sponsor, Ingres will provide dozens of opportunities for attendees to learn about the advantages, cooperation, and interoperability enabled by partnerships between leading open source vendors. Through presentations, whitepapers, videos, and chats, Ingres will demonstrate how to lower costs while meeting new demands, drive innovation, and run business critical applications. At the Ingres virtual booth, attendees will learn more about the myths around open source security, find out how to lower TCO and increase ROI using Ingres, and chat about the advantages of running JBoss on Ingres Database, the leading open source database that helps organizations develop and manage business critical applications at an affordable cost.

In a virtual panel, Mike Vertal, CEO of Rivet Logic, a leading provider of consulting and system integration services focused on open source content management solutions, will demonstrate how ConnectedWeddings.com, the premier wedding planning application for Facebook, is using Alfresco, JBoss, and Ingres has as a way to combine low cost and reliability. Rivet Logic, in partnership with Ingres, Alfresco, and JBoss, developed the application for ConnectedWeddings.com , a website that leverages the power of social networking to make wedding planning easier, more interactive, and less time consuming. The application enables couples worldwide to use the information they and their friends have on Facebook to build the invitation, guest list, seating chart, and create a customized, professional looking wedding site from which to interact. ConnectedWeddings.com serves as a model of the increasing significance of content services in the Web 2.0 environment leveraged on an all open source stack.

“The JBoss Virtual Experience exemplifies open source creativity and the new ways to use innovation to cut costs,” said Thomas Wunderlich, director of business development at Ingres. “Ingres and JBoss together help companies cut costs by leveraging the flexibility and innovative abilities of open source with proven business critical capabilities. We look forward to discussing this more in details with people from all around the world who will be attending the event.”

To register, go to www.jboss.com/virtualexperience.

About Ingres Corporation

Ingres Corporation is a leading provider of open source database management software and support services. Ingres powers customer success with the flexibility, cost savings, and innovation that are hallmarks of an open source deployment. Ingres supports its customers with a vibrant community and world class support, globally. Based in Redwood City, California, Ingres has major development, sales, and support centers throughout the world, and more than 10,000 customers in the United States and internationally. For more information, visit www.ingres.com.

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