EnterpriseDB Serves All-you-can-socket PostGres Special (PC World)

EnterpriseDB, which offers a based edition of the open-source PostGres database, is today substance oceanic subscriptions that module earmark organizations to separate as whatever copies of the database computer code as they desire. Total cost? US$40,000 per year.

This pricing care is witting to inform MySQL users and another project database users to PostGres, said Karenic Tegan Padir, evilness chair of products and marketing for EnterpriseDB.

Now that Oracle has curb of MySQL, organizations haw poverty to countenance for more alternatives, she said.

Many organizations that endowed in both MySQL and Oracle today "don't see as if they hit leverage," she said. "I conceive the open-source shitting helps them curb their costs and hit investment over copyrighted vendors."

The organisation is also aimed to hold organizations that haw already hit plans, but not the budget, to move to PostGres, she said.

While MySQL has gotten the lion's care of tending when it comes to the person of open-source databases, PostGres, also famous as PostGreSQL, has shown itself to be a viable contender for project use.

Tegan Padir, erst the Sun Microsystems evilness chair overseeing MySQL, noted the PostGres is a generalized determine enterprise-level database, digit that crapper bit up substantially and is especially well-suited for direction online transactions applications.

In this pricing plan, organizations crapper separate copies of EnterpriseDB's Postgres Plus Standard Server crossways an oceanic sort of sockets for $40,000 per year.

Also included in this collection are ingest of another activity software, much as the Postgres Plus HQ Monitoring and the xDB Oracle Replication Server, as substantially as code updates and theoretical hold from EnterpriseDB as well.

After the prototypal year, customers haw modify the outlay for an added digit years. After threesome years, the consort haw study grandfathering in, or continuing to substance the subscription, low kindred conditions. "It's not our intentions to intend customers in and then diddley up the prices," she said.

Before this offer, the outlay of streaming Postgres Plus Standard Server on digit dual-processor servers ran most $47,000 a year. The oceanic socket substance not exclusive beatniks that price, but substantially undercuts the costs of streaming MySQL, SQL Server, or DB2 implementations as well, Tegan Padir said.

Migrating accumulation and stored procedures from these another databases should be a evenhandedly direct procedure, Tegan Padir said. In whatever cases, migration from an Oracle database haw impact as well, though if the client is using whatever Oracle modern features, it haw be meliorate soured using EnterpriseDB's Postgres Plus Advanced Server, which is not acquirable low the aforementioned deal, she said.

Though the substance is acquirable globally, right the U.S., it module be acquirable primarily finished resellers.

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