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PostgreSQL – up, out, and all around

, August 8, 2006 @ 4:08 am ET

Over the past few weeks, there has been a significant amount of commercial activity relating to the open source database, PostgreSQL. EnterpriseDB raised $20 million US in its Series B funding round (press release), and signed a deal with Sun Microsystems to provide PostgreSQL support to Sun’s customers (article). GreenPlum and Sun announced a partnership for an open source data warehouse appliance powered by PostgreSQL (press release). While all of this new activity is taking place around PostgreSQL, Pervasive exited this market entirely (official posting).

Update 1 (08/08/06): EnterpriseDB has posted a press release regarding the support agreement with Sun.

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Comments (2) Categories: Funding,Software

2 Responses to “PostgreSQL – up, out, and all around”

  1. Dave Edwards says:
    August 11, 2006 at 12:31 pm

    Onward and upward for Postgres. The current Log Buffer covers your story, thanks for it.

  2. Pythian Group Blog » Log Buffer #5: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs says:
    March 9, 2007 at 4:25 pm

    […] Raven Zachary of 451 CAOS Theory posts some business news about PostgreSQL. In short, EnterpriseDB signed a deal with Sun Microsystems to provide PostgreSQL support to Sun’s customers. This could be a big step forward for Postgres’s enterprise adoption. […]