LEEDS, UK 11th March 2005 - The Ingres User Association (IUA) has announced the appointment of David Postle as its new chairman. Postle replaces Phil Parkin who held the position for 4 years.

Postle has been involved with Ingres and the IUA for a large part of his 15 year career in the IT industry. In 2004, Postle joined Luminary Solutions, a CA partner and systems integration and bespoke development software house, where he is responsible for its Java and open source practice.

Postle said, "I see this as a great opportunity. My first conference as chairman will be in June 2005 and my ongoing ambition is to build on the existing community to help turn Ingres into the de-facto standard for open source enterprise scale applications, as well as actively encouraging new members from the open source community."

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About Luminary Solutions

Luminary is a systems integration company that combines existing corporate systems to produce new, integrated applications delivered to multiple display technologies - such as browsers, PDAs and mobile phones using both J2EE and .NET architectures. Luminary has two key areas of service - the integration of disparate data sources presented by an integration layer to new generation devices 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

About the Ingres User Association

The IUA is an independent organisation that works to benefit its membership through the organisation of two conferences a year. With presentations by our members as well as CA senior personnel provide perspectives and experiences with the ingres product set along with the future development and marketing plans from CA.

Website: www.iua.org.uk