Ingres Database is a best-of-breed, general-purpose relational database for enterprise and workgroup computing. Ingres Database delivers the performance and reliability needed for global, always-available applications to allow more business to be done with less resources - to save both and money. Ingres continues to reduce the complexity, time, database administrator (DBA) skills and cost associated with database management by helping to eliminate, simplify and automate many tasks traditionally associated with maintaining an enterprise-class database. Upgrading from previous releases of Ingres Database is a simple, highly automated task. Ingres and Ingres Database enable business partners to improve their profitability, reduce their risk and deliver best of breed solutions to customers. Ingres Database continues to support the latest standards including Java™Database Connectivity (JDBC), open database connectivity (ODBC) and Object Linking and Embedding Database (OLE/DB.) This is another example of Ingres' commitment to producing standards-based software that works in today's open world.