This presentation and discussion will show why customers are becoming bolder in adopting open source products for critical components of their infrastructure, and building better value and an improved relationship with their software providers. The increasing use of this new model creates new opportunities and demonstrates how the old, closed source model is failing. For those still using proprietary software, this session will cover the questions you should be asking your closed-source vendor about what actual value they are providing you - their end-user. Also discussed will be the contribution of Ingres to open source in August 2004, providing an alternative to commercial relational databases for the fiscally aware enterprise. Bill Maimone, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Engineering, will discuss the current status of Ingres, open source success stories, and the plans for the future. Topics to be addressed include:

The creation of the ""business open source"" community and its likely impact on the enterprise software market

How to identify the next set of leaders emerging in the market and how to identify a leader vs. a follower

The changing concept of the business open source "community"

Biographies

Emma McGrattan, Senior Vice President of Engineering Miss McGrattan is responsible for the development and integration of the Ingres database and associated products and technologies. A leading authority in DBMS technologies, Miss McGrattan has been instrumental in the ongoing success of the Ingres product line. Miss McGrattan joined Ingres as senior vice president of Engineering from CA where she held a similar position responsible for the Ingres family of relational database management products. Miss McGrattan started her career with Ingres in 1992, and has held a variety of senior development and management positions. Born in Ireland, Miss McGrattan earned a bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering from Dublin City University.

Bill Maimone, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Engineering Mr. Maimone leads Ingres’s worldwide engineering team in architecting and delivering the next generation of open source database solutions. Mr. Maimone brings 20 years of Oracle database architecture management to Ingres. Most recently, Mr. Maimone served as a vice president in Oracle’s Server Technologies division with responsibility for its collaboration software, including content services and records management. For more than 10 years, he led Oracle’s innovation in data security, including pioneering technology developments and advances within the U.S. and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) security bodies. Furthermore, Mr. Maimone’s scalability work on both releases of Oracle7 and Oracle8 databases included real-world record database scalability achievements. While at Oracle, Mr. Maimone also managed worldwide, cross-functional groups of developers working on identity management, SQL language and runtime services, directory services, globalization, query optimization, and data dictionary. Mr. Maimone started his career at Oracle in 1986. He holds both master’s and bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science and a bachelor’s degree in Science Journalism from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.