REDWOOD CITY /SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Ingres Corporation, a leading provider of open source database management software and support services, announced today that Ingres CAFÉ (Consolidated Application Foundation for Eclipse) has won a LinuxWorld Product Excellence Award. Ingres CAFÉ, an open source community contributed project, was named the Best Application Development Tool by an independent panel of judges and industry experts. The award was presented at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo this week in San Francisco, Calif.

Ingres CAFÉ built by developers, for developers, is designed to enable fast implementation of a Java Development Environment (JDE) by minimizing configuration issues.

A tool that brings together in one bundle a pre-configured stack of technologies, which can be used by community and professional developers to build feature rich Java applications. Given that they are built on Eclipse and Ingres, the applications developed with Ingres CAFÉ can scale from the desktop to the data-center without modification.

Ingres CAFÉ for Linux was originally developed inside an Ingres community project sponsored by the Google Summer of Code. The project, which began at the beginning of summer, was spearheaded by Samrat Dhillon, of Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada and mentored by Andrew Ross, senior software engineer at Ingres Corporation. Additional resources from the community, and the Ingres engineering team, were involved in testing the product and providing valuable feedback to ensure that Ingres CAFÉ meets the demands of professional and community developers on the Linux platform.

"A very big congratulations to Samrat Dhillon, Andrew Ross, and the whole Ingres community on this great achievement," said Emma McGrattan, senior vice president of engineering at Ingres. "Unlike any Java application development tool on the market today, Ingres CAFÉ enables developers to become productive right away, and then easily and painlessly migrate into mission critical environments without having to change the database which can be an expensive and time-consuming proposition."

"Every year we look forward to the opportunity to recognize our exhibitors who are making strides in innovating and improving existing products in the Linux and open source community," said Melinda Kendall, vice president and general manager, LinuxWorld Conference & Expo and NGDC.  "We'd like to congratulate Ingres, as well as all the winners and our finalists, for keeping the LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards program so competitive."

The LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards cover a wide variety of open solutions categories, and are voted on by a panel of independent judges and industry experts in recognition of product and service innovation, as well as solutions in open computing.

Running on Linux, Ingres CAFÉ bundles together many open source-friendly solutions, including the Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE), Ingres database management system (DBMS), Apache Tomcat, Hibernate and JavaServer Faces (JSF) libraries into a single installable package. Before Ingres CAFÉ, Java developers working on Linux had to download, install, and configure this stack of technologies themselves.