Enterprisedb is/n't Open Source

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Mar 1, 2007 5:40 PM EDT
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Tim and I had a great conversation with Andy Astor of EnterpriseDB last week. EnterpriseDB is a drop-in replacement for Oracle, based on the PostgreSQL codebase. Rather than forking the code, they've developed their product as a collection of extensions on top of PostgreSQL, and their releases track the latest version of the public code. They contribute patches back to the core in the virtuous cycle of benefit->contribute->benefit. They hire several developers to work on PostgreSQL (6, last I heard), and are among the largest donators to PostgreSQL.org.

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EnterpriseDB *isn't* an Open Source Company. DarrenR114 1 781 Mar 2, 2007 10:25 AM

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