Authors: Larry-Alston: dbta.com

Larry Alston is vice president of marketing and product management at EnterpriseDB, which provides enterprise-class PostgreSQL products and services. For more information please visit www.enterprisedb.com

Articles By Larry Alston

A Practical Guide to Adopting an Open Source Database for Enterprise IT Use

The drivers and benefits of using open source in the enterprise have been widely documented. Ultimately, enterprise users adopt open source for two primary reasons: cost and vendor independence. These are the same drivers and benefits that apply to well-known categories such as operating systems, application servers and web browsers. However, because the database plays a role in all enterprise IT applications, the scrutiny and rigor that enterprises apply to the selection, implementation and deployment of open source databases is far more intense and deliberate.

Posted 07 Apr 2010 / April 2010 Issue

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