From announce at lists.ingres.com  Tue Aug 15 06:46:28 2006
From: announce at lists.ingres.com (announce@lists.ingres.com)
Date: Thu Mar  8 10:19:55 2007
Subject: [Announce] Ingres News Flash: Introducing Project Icebreaker
Message-ID: <20060815094628.11824@web1.nyc1.bluetie.com>

August 15, 2006 

Dear Ingres Community Member: 

Ingres is pleased to announce that it has unveiled Project Icebreaker at LinuxWorld SF today, a breakthrough “proof of concept” for enterprise 
database customers. 

Project Icebreaker is an integrated software maintenance unit that dramatically lowers the cost and complexity of database and operating system 
maintenance and support.  The integration of the Ingres 2006 database with the Linux operating system enables a single, easy-to-manage 
environment where the operating system becomes transparent and support is provided by Ingres as a unified maintenance stream – a capability 
unique to Ingres.  Closed-source vendors have struggled and failed to provide this capability to its customers.

Project Icebreaker is meant to help customers with the lack of integration, multiple maintenance streams and painful installs associated with 
traditional software stacks.  Other benefits include ease of installation and lower costs of ownership due to no license fees and better deployment 
of time and resources.

Project Icebreaker also includes support for virtualization technologies and extensible management and support framework that makes room for 
new software components to be included in the single maintenance stream support.  Licensed under the GPL 2, Project Icebreaker runs on any 
x86-compatible, 32-bit capable, server hardware appropriate for Linux.  

Because of the collaborative and innovative nature of open source,  Ingres and rPath were able to develop Project Icebreaker in only five months.

Demos of Project Icebreaker can be seen at LinuxWorld San Francisco in booth #410 from August 15-17.

For customers interested in becoming early adopters of Project Icebreaker, please email your request to: icebreaker@ingres.com.  

For more information about Project Icebreaker please go to:
For the press release:
http://www.ingres.com/news/2006-08-15_Icebreaker.html 

For the FAQ:
http://www.ingres.com/faqs/FAQs_Icebreaker.html

Kindest regards, 

Dave Dargo 
Ingres CTO and Senior Vice President of Strategy