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IBM is licensing technology from an open-source database company it's invested in, hoping to convince Oracle customers they should switch to its next DB2. The giant has licensed capabilities in five-year-old EnterpriseDB's Postgres Plus Advanced Server, which EnterpriseDB claims will cut by 90 per cent the cost of moving off Oracle. The technology is expected to appear in the next version of DB2, version 9.7, to be announced today.
While EnterpriseDB's products are based on open source PostgreSQL, their extensions are not open source. If they were, it would be really cool...
What I'd love to see besides that is EnterpriseDB and GreenPlum to merge their PostgreSQL extensions... They both add some really cool stuff to PostgreSQL, and if it were all open sourced or even if EnterpriseDB and GreenPlum were to merge, it would make PostgreSQL a truly enterprise level competitor to Oracle. I'm not sure how IBM would like that though, because if you could combine EnterpriseDB's Oracle compatibility and performance tweaks with GreenPlum's shared nothing parallel clustering scalability it might also kill DB2 EEE...
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What I'd love to see besides that is EnterpriseDB and GreenPlum to merge their PostgreSQL extensions... They both add some really cool stuff to PostgreSQL, and if it were all open sourced or even if EnterpriseDB and GreenPlum were to merge, it would make PostgreSQL a truly enterprise level competitor to Oracle. I'm not sure how IBM would like that though, because if you could combine EnterpriseDB's Oracle compatibility and performance tweaks with GreenPlum's shared nothing parallel clustering scalability it might also kill DB2 EEE...