Ingres
Americannoun
noun
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Competitors like Ingres, Ashton-Tate, Sybase, and Informix have come and gone, but Oracle remains the leader in this business, though SAP, IBM, and Microsoft also have significant shares.
From Barron's • Oct. 10, 2025
In the third gallery, 53 pencil-only drawings from 2021 have a delicacy reminiscent of Ingres and frequently seem to give glimpses of mountain ranges and forests.
From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2023
In addition to co-founding Vantiq, Paul Butterworth co-founded the cloud platform development company Emotive and worked in computer engineering and technology roles at Oracle, Sun and Ingres.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2023
In a Joan Brown painting, a cat might sit pensively in the middle of a Kool-Aid-colored landscape and a woman with the body of a tiger might take the pose of an Ingres odalisque.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2022
I have named this one Torontodalisque: Homage to Ingres, because of the pose, and the rubber plant like a fan behind her.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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