“Tyler McGraw, a database administrator at Bowater Inc., a paper
maker in Greeneville, S.C., is finished making excuses for being an
Ingres DBA.“McGraw, who is also works sometimes as an Oracle DBA, said he
has often had trouble keeping up in conversations with other IT
professionals at industry trade shows and conventions. Now, though,
Computer Associates International Inc.’s decision to turn Ingres
over to the open source community, and compete directly with MySQL
has changed all that.