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The Ingres® Million Dollar Challenge

“ISLANDIA, N.Y., August 4, 2004 — Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA) today announced the Ingres® Million Dollar Challenge, an unprecedented offer to the open source community to develop migration toolkits for Ingres r3, which was released today under the CA Trusted Open Source License. The offer — which is unique in the history of the open source community — is designed to leverage the global developer talent pool, while providing substantial financial compensation to those who successfully meet the challenge. Under the terms of the offer, open source developers are invited to create solutions that enable users of Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase Adaptive Enterprise Server, IBM DB2 Universal Database, Informix and/or MySQL to migrate to the Ingres r3 database platform. Qualifying solutions will be eligible for cash awards of up to $400,000, with a total purse of $1 million.”

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