| Mud2 | Majikthise: Not so much users here ;) | 11:39 |
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| Majikthise | I think you're the first other person I've seen in here in years tbh ;) | 11:42 |
| Majikthise | this channel was a little more lively a few years back, when Ingres Corp were trying to make a big push into the OSS world | 11:43 |
| Mud2 | Thanks for staying all those years in this channel then :)! Hows Ingres doing today? | 11:50 |
| Mud2 | I mean with popularuty etc | 11:50 |
| Majikthise | well, they got taken over by Actian and I think they're doing alright, as a small-ish cloud services provider that also happens to release a DBMS | 11:58 |
| Majikthise | last time I went to their UK office for training it seemed fairly well-sorted | 11:59 |
| Majikthise | they still have some big clients like the MOD and the Norwegian Police | 11:59 |
| Majikthise | it's flippin' difficult to hire Ingres developers now though. When we advertised last year, we only found one, and she'd not used it for a decade (fortunately she has a good memory so we hired her) | 12:01 |
| Mud2 | Nice :) | 13:14 |
| Mud2 | In my work (I work as IT Engineer) nobody heart of it, its small against mysql/mssql | 13:15 |
| Mud2 | Whats MOD? | 13:15 |
| Mud2 | Majikthise: : Youre a official employee of Ingres :D ? | 13:16 |
| Majikthise | nah, I just work for a place that uses Ingres | 13:17 |
| Majikthise | MOD = Ministry of Defence | 13:17 |
| Majikthise | Ingres did used to be huge, years and years ago. It was very popular in the early 90s | 13:17 |
| Mud2 | Ahh ok :) Thats counts for me too :P They use a old version of ingres here to I would suggest | 13:59 |
| Mud2 | Majikthise: Like netscape in the 90s ? | 13:59 |
| Majikthise | something like that, yes | 14:00 |
| Mud2 | Majikthise: They use here a DSM for selling autocars. Build on Linux/Unix in the late 80's, early 90's, client program was originaly on a terminal en then converted to a windows client (ugly as hell, you dont want to see the directory structure and how the clients needs to be installed) and the server is still a unix/linux server with ingres | 14:02 |
| Mud2 | I bed for 100$ the database is still a old version of Ingres | 14:02 |
| Mud2 | DMS* Dealer Management System or something like that :P | 14:12 |
| Majikthise | what's the client? OpenROAD? UpFront? | 14:19 |
| Majikthise | we still use the terminal forms (along with a web app for non-power-users and for students) | 14:20 |
| Majikthise | we did use a program called UpFront to present the terminal forms as win16 forms. It was horrible. We switched it off a few years back and told everyone to just use PuTTY instead. | 14:20 |
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