LEEDS, UK 8th November 2005 - As the largest Ingres services provider in the UK, Luminary Solutions welcomes the launch of the new Ingres Corporation that was spun out of Computer Associates yesterday. Ingres Corp. has taken the development, support and services teams, along with the rights to sell the full line of Ingres products.

Mike Prollins, Chairman of Luminary, who is also a former chairman of the UK Ingres User Association and the Worldwide Association of IUAs, comments: "We believe that this deal has great potential to increase the marketing focus and investment in Ingres, and thereby increase the user base, which will be good news for all users. During its 10 year stewardship of the product, it was clear that Ingres was never a strategic product for CA, and while CA continued to develop the database as a foundation for its other products, it never made active efforts to market and promote Ingres as much as its users and partners wanted.

Customers who exploited the technology for mission critical business applications have always been very loyal and committed to its key strengths and advantages, even though Oracle and Microsoft - whose products weren't as strong at the time - did more to bring other application vendors onto their databases. Recent CA comments have cast a further cloud over users' confidence that CA would continue to invest in the technology.

Ingres Corp. will be able to shed many of these image problems, and will have none of the associated barriers to success. They have a singular focus on this one technology set and will have every incentive to market and promote it, and to continue to invest in the technology.

Luminary welcomes this news, and had a very productive meeting with the new management team shortly after the announcement yesterday. We talked about key topics like continuity of support for customers, plans for future product investment, and building an even stronger relationship."

"Continuity of support, relationships with our partners and building on the incredible community we already have, are all very important to us", said Dev Mukherjee, Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President of Business Development, "I strongly believe we are the best-capitalised Open Source database company on the planet". He added, "I'm very excited about the significant investment in product development and marketing activities that this is going to allow us to make."

Neil Warnock, founder director of Luminary commented: "This is excellent news. Our immediate focus is on supporting the existing customer base during the transition period, but we are really looking forward to partnering with Ingres Corporation to exploit the growth opportunities that this buyout presents."

About Luminary Solutions

Luminary is a systems integration company that combines existing corporate systems to produce new, integrated applications using both J2EE and .NET architectures. Luminary has three key areas of service - the provision of Corporate Performance Management systems and expertise, support and development of existing applications, and the provision of specialist services to Ingres and OpenROAD customers in conjunction with Computer Associates, one of the world's largest software companies.

Website: www.luminary.co.uk