Ingres, the open source database software company with the ambitions of an Oracle, announced Roger Burkhardt, the former chief technology officer of the New York Stock Exchange, as its president and chief operating officer.

The appointment is another coup for Terry Garnett, the acting CEO of Ingres, and the leading investor in Ingres. Mr Garnett has built a team of top software industry executives such as:

Jim Finn, who led Oracle's corporate comms for many years and is credited with managing the tricky acquisition strategy, and was recently head of comms at IBM Americas; Tom Berquist, a former star Wall Street analyst is CFO; Dave Dargo, senior VP and CTO came from Oracle and is a respected authority on Linux; Dev Mukherjee, CMO, came from Microsoft and IBM and is credited with key thought leadership in establishing utility computing and software as a service. Bill Maimone is Chief Architect, he used to lead database development at Oracle.

Mr Garnett told SVW that because of the high caliber team already in place, recruiting for the position of president and chief operating officer was made more challenging because it required someone of equal stature.

Mr Burkhardt will bring to Ingres an understanding of the needs of financial services customers--a key market for Ingres.

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