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- Postgres Plus (zip)
- Postgres Plus is a distribution of PostgreSQL that contains the following additional features integrated in a convenient installation package: Postgres Studio for administration, Procedural Language Debugger, Geospatial extensions, GridSQL Parallel Query, MySQL Migration utility, Slony-II for replication, and pgmemcached for application scaling. The package contains both BSD and GPLv2 licensed...
- Tags: EnterpriseDB, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2008-06-24
- What does IBM mean for an open source start-up?
- News that IBM is among the new investors in EnterpriseDB has already been remarked upon by our own Matt Asay. I know it gives employees a warm feeling to know that the VC money is flowing and Big Blue believes in them. But what...
- Tags: EnterpriseDB, IBM Corp., Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Who decides what is open source?
- If the code you build from is not GPL its easy to build a proprietary company on an open source base. PostgreSQL, for instance, uses the BSD license. Thus EnterpriseDB can build proprietary extensions and offer them to the market. Are they an open source company? No, they have no...
- Tags: BSD, Database Management, FOSS, Software Licensing, General, Applications
- Blog posts 2007-03-01
- If Vonage handles this right, their customer service will improve
- Vonage announced a move this morning that if they handle it right- and thats one big honkin IF- their customer service could improve several fold.Im talking about a new alliance with open-source relational database management system vendor EnterpriseDB. Vonage has already moved part of its trouble-ticket system for customer...
- Tags: Databases, OPEN SOURCE, customer service, Vonage Holdings Corp., EnterpriseDB
- Blog posts 2006-11-20
- From Ingres to EnterpriseDB
- From Ingres to EnterpriseDBCheaper perhaps but not very innovativeIt would be much more interesting to see an open source implementation of the ideas for the future of relational systems put forward in Date and Darwen's "Third Manifesto". However we need the courage to abandon SQL. (Glad to see Quel getting...
- Tags: Databases, Fyracle, EnterpriseDB, Firebird, Ingres
- Discussion threads 2005-06-14
- From Ingres to EnterpriseDB
- I've been reviewing database choices as part of the lead up to a small miracle - a project from some years ago is being resurrected by users who've wrestled some small measure of control back from the IT group that was supposed to take the ideas from my Cocoon demo...
- Tags: Ingres, PostgresSQL
- Blog posts 2005-06-14
- From Ingres to EnterpriseDB
- I've been reviewing database choices as part of the lead up to a small miracle - a project from some years ago is being resurrected by users who've wrestled some small measure of control back from the IT group that was supposed to take the ideas from my Cocoon demo...
- Tags: PostgresSQL, Ingres
- Blog posts 2005-06-14
Additional Resources
- H-Store: Complete destruction of the old DBMS order?
- Guest Post: Curt Monash reports from the front lines of a database revolution. Mike Stonebraker created much of the database management industry. Now he wants to blow it up. Via a project called H-Store [pdf file], he proposes to manage high-end OLTP databases entirely in...
- Tags: Disk, DBMS, Brown University, OLTP, RAM, H-Store, I-Store, H-Store Team, Databases, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Curt Monash
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- PostgreSQL left out in database brouhaha
- PostgreSQL left out in database brouhahaTalk about bias ntntThe reason PosgreSQL is left out...Dana, I think the reason that you'll see PosgreSQL left out of the database brouhaha is because the conversation this week is focused on the enterprise. While PostgreSQL may have great adoption for deployment within the...
- Tags: Databases, PostgreSQL, Postgres, Ingres, database
- Discussion threads 2008-01-18
- Coverity work spun backward
- Coverity work spun backwardAs always follow the money"An ability to acknowledge flaws is a strength of open source, yet too many in the computer media are portraying it as a weakness."Journalists don't exist anymore, they're in sales support.I think Coverity does inspect commercial software... they just sign NDA's with the...
- Tags: Web browsers, RIM BlackBerry, Coverity, Firebird, ICU
- Discussion threads 2008-01-09
- Oracle: Strong second quarter; Outlook in line; BEA book closed
- Oracle: Strong second quarter; Outlook in line; BEA book closedOracle: are they scared or ashamed ?EnterpriseDB should have this profit announcement on the first page of their sales presentation. The money is in the magic. Databases store stuff and retrieve stuff and provide you with an interface...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, PostgreSQL, Microsoft Outlook, open-source database, Oracle Corp., BEA Systems Inc., Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-12-19
- A hundred million miracles
- This post is something of an apology. And an explanation of the picture at right. While I've been writing about IBM and Microsoft, about the the biggest trees in the open source forest, thousands of little shoots have been growing, ignored. Zoho has been...
- Tags: Zoho, Phishing, Open Source, Software As A Service (SaaS), Security, Spam And Phishing, Emerging Technologies, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-09-19
- Talend brings open source to enterprise data integration
- The enterprise open source software parade continues with Talend, which is bringing its data integration software. Talend Open Studio v2.0 generates data integration processes in Java and offers Extract, Transform and Load ETL functions for data warehousing and analytics, working on scale out, commodity hardware grids. It includes over...
- Tags: IT Management, Open Source, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- The true nature of open source
- In the beginning...open source was pure and unadulterated. Over time, the idea of community-build software that is free and unfettered by sticky licensing terms and fees caught on with IT buyers, and the disruption of the old order began. Now, open source (Linux, Eclipse, Java, etc.) is mainstream, with many...
- Tags: Software Infrastructure, Open Source, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-09
- Who decides what is open source?
- Who decides what is open source?I don't think that word means what you think it means.[i]In fact the whole open source movement was designed in opposition to the FOSS movement advocated by Richard Stallman and others.[/i]In opposition? No, if you want to visit some folks opposed to the GPL you...
- Tags: Opens Source, open source
- Discussion threads 2007-03-01
- Mulesource gets behind open source ESB platform
- Open source is well known as disruptive software industry force in the guise of operating systems (Linux, Solaris), servers (Apache, TomCat, JBoss), databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and other categories, ranging from business intelligence (JasperSoft, Pentaho) to system management (Qlusters, GroundWork).The latest project to come out of the shadows to challenge the...
- Tags: Mule, MuleSource
- Blog posts 2006-10-02
- The open source effect
- At the Churchill Club forum held on June 21, several open source company executives discussed the "Open Source Effect." The "effect" is the growing popularity of open source software in a broad range of categories and environments, as well as the cultural shift to less proprietary solutions. At the same...
- Tags: Podcast, CEO, Open Source, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2006-07-17
- Marten Mickos: MySQL's undaunted leader
- Prior to Stephen Shankland's scoop about Oracle's attempt to add MySQL to its portfolio, I chatted with the open source database company's CEO Marten Mickos about Oracle's open source envy, his reaction to Oracle's purchase of InnoDB, and how he plans to keep MySQL ahead of the game. Mickos had...
- Tags: Marten Mickos
- Blog posts 2006-02-15
- Licemanager.com?
- Oracle, long a holdout on multi-core pricing, just announced an interesting compromise. What they're going to do, at least for both of the customers likely to buy at list price this year, is assume that the additional cores will weigh in at 75% of the first one. In other words,...
- Tags: Oracle Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-07-21
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