Break out of database lock-in: a comment for ZDNet

The folks at ZDNet did a short write-up of Ingres' new version of its open-source, enterprise-class database. In her post, Dana Blankenhorn raises the question that we've been answering at Alpha Software for more than 20 years: Can database lock-in be broken?

YES.

I've brought up our white paper on the risks of application development a number of times recently, because I continue to see developers struggle after either being locked in or abandoned by their application development platform.

Of course, I commented on the article, and you can read it here.