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Open Thoughts: Database Compatibility = Customer Choice
http://andyastor.blogspot.com/2009/04/database-compatibility-customer-choice.html
Perspectives on EnterpriseDB, the commercialization of open source, and the business of enterprise databases. Wednesday, April 22, 2009. Database Compatibility = Customer Choice. It's rare that the database industry gets two major headlines in a week. Yesterday, of course, Oracle announced it was buying Sun (and therefore MySQL). But today's news is closer to home, and something I've been waiting to talk about for a long time. And that's really what compatibility is all about: Customer Choice. The Signif...
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Open Thoughts: Announcing Postgres Plus
http://andyastor.blogspot.com/2008/03/announcing-postgres-plus.html
Perspectives on EnterpriseDB, the commercialization of open source, and the business of enterprise databases. Tuesday, March 25, 2008. Today was a very busy day at EnterpriseDB. We announced progress on a variety of fronts, which I'll highlight in this post. I will post more detail about each topic in subsequent posts as the week goes on, but here are the key announcements:. 5 We set the stage for a component-based architecture that you'll be hearing much more about in the coming weeks.
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Open Thoughts: The OSA Report (including the Popularity of Postgres)
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Perspectives on EnterpriseDB, the commercialization of open source, and the business of enterprise databases. Thursday, December 13, 2007. The OSA Report (including the Popularity of Postgres). The Open Solutions Alliance (OSA). Just published the results of the 5 customer forums they held in 2007. T. Is a quick read (11 pages), and is quite thoughtful and balanced. I will highlight a couple of points I found particularly interesting, but I'd encourage you to read it for yourself. These two points precis...
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Open Thoughts: More Results from the Launch
http://andyastor.blogspot.com/2008/04/since-my-last-post-couple-of-weeks-ago.html
Perspectives on EnterpriseDB, the commercialization of open source, and the business of enterprise databases. Wednesday, April 9, 2008. More Results from the Launch. Since my last post a couple of weeks ago, we’ve continued to see terrific results flow from the March 25 launch of Postgres Plus. And the announcement of the IBM investment. This note is just a quick update to keep you informed about our progress. The Wall Street Journal yesterday published an article on open source databases. A leading anal...
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Open Thoughts: A New Phase for EnterpriseDB
http://andyastor.blogspot.com/2008/06/new-phase-for-enterprisedb.html
Perspectives on EnterpriseDB, the commercialization of open source, and the business of enterprise databases. Wednesday, June 4, 2008. A New Phase for EnterpriseDB. Today, EnterpriseDB announce the next phase of the company’s evolution. Effective June 9, Ed Boyajian will step in as CEO of the company. I will take on a new role, running Business Development. I’m very pleased that we’ve been so successful in becoming the world’s leading Postgres company with 300 customers, 100 employees, ...Freshmeat: Post...
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Open Thoughts: OSBC Keynote Notes
http://andyastor.blogspot.com/2008/03/osbc-keynote-notes.html
Perspectives on EnterpriseDB, the commercialization of open source, and the business of enterprise databases. Tuesday, March 25, 2008. I'm sitting at the opening session of the Open Source Business Conference. A few of my favorite moments.updated in real time. About consolidation and the role of Red Hat moving forward. After a caveat that he's only been in the job 90 days, Jim stated that Red Hat will "narrow its [acquisition] aperture, to "enterprise infrastructure software," but will be aggressive ...
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Open Thoughts: No, Virginia, MySQL Has Not Gone Closed Source
http://andyastor.blogspot.com/2008/04/no-virginia-mysql-has-not-gone-closed.html
Perspectives on EnterpriseDB, the commercialization of open source, and the business of enterprise databases. Thursday, April 17, 2008. No, Virginia, MySQL Has Not Gone Closed Source. There's a lot of talk this week, complaining that MySQL is moving away from its open source roots. While I make no bones about wanting to take every one of MySQL's paying customers (because after all, we have a better commercial offering ;-), I have to say in fairness that the talk is not really true or fair. He wrote, "...
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Open Thoughts: PostgreSQL: More Traffic than MySQL?
http://andyastor.blogspot.com/2008/02/postgresql-more-traffic-than-mysql.html
Perspectives on EnterpriseDB, the commercialization of open source, and the business of enterprise databases. Saturday, February 23, 2008. PostgreSQL: More Traffic than MySQL? MarkMail, a mailing list archive service, found that Postgres gets far more traffic in its mailing lists than MySQL. Since, January 2000, MySQL has 340,000 messages with about 3000 new messages per month. Meanwhile, Postgres has 583,000 messages in that same period and 7,000 new messages each month! February 27, 2008 at 10:57 AM.
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Open Thoughts: Leaving EnterpriseDB
http://andyastor.blogspot.com/2009/06/leaving-enterprisedb.html
Perspectives on EnterpriseDB, the commercialization of open source, and the business of enterprise databases. Tuesday, June 30, 2009. As some of you may know, I am leaving EnterpriseDB, the company that Denis Lussier and I founded 5 years ago. In this entry, I will offer some insight into the thought process behind this change, and an idea of future directions, both for the company and for me. What’s next for me? 160; * Application development and infrastructure software. Andy, I remember the day you g...
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Stop Shrink - Retail Operational Intelligence: February 2009
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Stop Shrink - Retail Operational Intelligence. Discussions about Retail Operational Intelligence including: Labor Efficiency, Process Improvements, and Shrink Reduction, with a special emphasis on the point-of-sale (POS), Loss Prevention (LP), and the tools surrounding the effectiveness of each. Friday, February 27, 2009. As is always necessary, I start my new blog with "Hello World". So, as I joined Agilence, Inc., a venture-backed software start-up, I decided that I should retire my other blog. Is the ...
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