Open source is one of the frontiers of the cloud system. This is why organizations are gambling on the potential of the open source cloud. We’ve already seen recent developments with the Hadoop spin-off, and ongoing developments within the OpenStack initiative. Now, a leading provider of PostgreSQL-based products, EnterpriseDB, joins the parade as they recently launched availability of Postgres Advanced Server 9.0 that promises to savings of more or less 80% versus the common commercial databases existing.