FreeSoft and Ingres win Hungarian government open source software tender

Open source database management company Ingres Corporation announced on Wednesday the award of the Hungarian government's open source software tender which has a four-year, USD22.3m budget.



A consortium of seven companies led by FreeSoft plc (Budapest:FREESOFT), a service provider in the software development sector in Hungary, participated in winning the tender.

During the next four years these firms will supply the Hungarian government with software valued at HUF4m (USD22.3m).

Ingres said that it will play an active role in all FreeSoft projects as the open source database of choice.

(USD1=HUF186.1)

Source: Tradingmarkets