Ingres Corporation announced the availability of the Ingres Icebreaker Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Appliance. Powered by Alfresco’s open source alternative software for enterprise content management, the Ingres Icebreaker ECM Appliance gives businesses a way to manage business content growth. Like other commercial open source solutions, the Ingres Icebreaker ECM Appliance lets IT purchasers pay only for the software and support they actually need. For the Ingres Icebreaker ECM Appliance, Ingres provides the open source database for a company’s advanced data repository needs, Alfresco provides the content management expertise, and their technology runs on the Ingres Database. It is an appliance that allows developers to bring two open technologies together on the open source Linux operating system. The Ingres Icebreaker ECM Appliance integrates the operating system, the database, and the ECM technology and is installed as a unit, managed as a unit, and maintained as a unit. The Ingres Icebreaker ECM appliance allows users to capture, store, and preserve data, assist in the management of data, and deliver data to customers and partners. To download the Ingres Icebreaker ECM appliance today, please go to http://esd.ingres.com, http://www.ingres.com