Ingres Corporation has announced the Ingres Development Stack for JBoss, a fully pre-assembled bundle that combines Ingres Database with Red Hat’s JBoss Developer Studio and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. The Ingres Development Stack for JBoss is available immediately as a 90-day evaluation at http://esd.ingres.com.

The Ingres Development Stack for JBoss includes all the components of Ingres Database and JBoss Developer Studio, offering businesses superlative technologies at a fraction of the cost of proprietary vendors. This offering represents another example of Ingres providing combined solutions that offer more choice in the market. Businesses adopting the open source IT solutions stand to achieve significant cost savings over proprietary software models.

“Worldwide enterprise customers are already using both companies’ open source technologies, but this represents the first time Ingres has pre-assembled an entire open source IT solution that includes JBoss Enterprise Middleware,” said Deb Woods, vice president of product management, Ingres. “Ultimately, it offers businesses the most advanced, proven application server and database technologies at a low cost point, as well as an open alternative to locked-in proprietary solutions at these critical layers of the stack.”

The Ingres Development Stack for JBoss creates a rich environment where Java developers can build data-centric applications together with the middleware and database required to support these applications in the enterprise. Combining the benefits of open source and open standards, the Ingres Development Stack for JBoss enables developers to quickly build portable, reliable, mission critical applications that can scale from the developers desktop to the enterprise data center. Once in full production, business managers can rest assured that the infrastructure supporting their business applications has been proven in countless mission critical deployments around the globe.