Date -2010-11-02
Gold level sponsorship demonstrates enterprise market validation for PostgreSQL
WESTFORD, Mass. - November 2, 2010 - EnterpriseDB, the largest independent PostgreSQL open source database company, today announced that IBM has signed on as a Gold sponsor at PG West, the industry's largest PostgreSQL conference. PG West is taking place Nov. 2-4 at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel in San Francisco. Other Gold sponsors include Jaspersoft, 2nd Quadrant and Continuent. EnterpriseDB is a Platinum sponsor at PG West 2010. See the event agenda here.
"IBM's sponsorship of PG West confirms that PostgreSQL is ready and well-suited for enterprise environments," said Ed Boyajian, CEO at EnterpriseDB. "Organizations today appreciate the compelling economics of open source database software like PostgreSQL which is rapidly becoming the most disruptive open source technology since Linux."
PG West provides an opportunity for the PostgreSQL community to come together to share recent advances. Conference speakers include prominent PostgreSQL community members, contributors and executives from companies that deploy PostgreSQL. Sun Microsystems co-founder and Open Source advocate Scott McNealy will be delivering the keynote, further validating the importance of using open source database technologies like PostgreSQL.
EnterpriseDB is the principal sponsor of the PG West. For more information about the PG West 2010 conference, visit http://www.postgresqlconference.org/. The cost per attendee is $150. To register, visit here.
About EnterpriseDB Corporation
EnterpriseDB, the Enterprise PostgreSQL Company, provides enterprise-class PostgreSQL products and PostgreSQL services to help IT organizations be successful with the world's most advanced open source database. The company's Postgres Plus products are ideally suited for transaction-intensive applications requiring superior performance, massive scalability and compatibility with proprietary database products to reduce overall database costs. EnterpriseDB has offices in North America, Europe and Asia. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Westford, Mass. For more information, please call +1-978-589-5700, or visit www.enterprisedb.com.
EnterpriseDB and Postgres Plus are trademarks of EnterpriseDB Corporation. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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