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Some Pithy Questions on CAs $1 Million Prize for Ingres Migration Tools

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Sep 7, 2004
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Slashdot prepared a list of (unsurprisingly) irreverent questions for CAs Sam Greenblatt, senior vice president and chief architect of CAs Linux Technology Group, about the $1 million in prize money the company has pledged to give to developers who come up with tools to migrate people onto its newly open-sourced database, Ingres. Greenblatt is pretty darn noncommittal on many questions, but he does offer some corrections to a history of CA that lists it as a place where “good products go to die,” as question No. 1 suggests.

Read the full interview at Slashdot.

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