EnterpriseDB CEO Named One of the “Top Leaders in Open Source Business”

EnterpriseDB's CEO, Andy Astor, was named one of 13 “Top Leaders in Open Source Business” by LinuxWorld Magazine. EnterpriseDB was also recently named one of the “Top 20 Companies to Watch in 2008" by Linux Magazine.

This is good news for open source and for people looking to save money on database license fees.

EnterpriseDB sells the open source based Oracle compatible EnterpriseDB Advanced Server as well as a packaged Postgres implementation. EnterpriseDB also offers consulting and training.

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EnterpriseDB Wins Best Database Award at LinuxWorld

EnterpriseDB, the Oracle-compatible database company, today announced that EnterpriseDB Advanced Server has won the LinuxWorld Product Excellence Award for Best Database Solution. EnterpriseDB Advanced Server beat both Oracle 11g and Jaspersoft Business Intelligence Suite to take the top honor.

"EnterpriseDB uniquely enables enterprises to run applications written for Oracle databases for a tiny fraction of Oracle's cost," said Andy Astor, chief executive officer, EnterpriseDB. "We were thrilled in 2005 to have taken the LinuxWorld Product Excellence Award for our industry-changing product and again in 2006 for our continued innovation. This year's award for Best Database Solution, especially in light of the hype surrounding Oracle 11g, is a gratifying endorsement of our product and strategy."

I thought Oracle XE won this award last year? Has EnterpriseDB won it 3 years in a row?

LewisC

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EnterpriseDB Finalist in Two Categories at LinuxWorld

EnterpriseDB got the finalist nod for Best Database Solution, for the third year, and for GridSQL For EnterpriseDB. This is the first I have heard of GridSQL and I am looking forward to more info.

All it says in the announcement is:

GridSQL for EnterpriseDB Advanced Server is a new product that will be announced at LinuxWorld on Aug. 7, 2007.

About all I can think is that it is something like pgCluster which is a multi-master, bi-directional replication tool for PostgreSQL. I have a hard believing that's what it because 1) they already have a replication tool and 2) the naming would be incredibly unfortunate.

I say option 2 because when most people hear grid associated with "an Oracle compatible database", they think of Oracle RAC and/or Grid (which most people erroneously think is the same thing but that's a different blog).

So now I wait with baited breath. I wish I had gotten a head's up at least.

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