EnterpriseDB, a company developing a database system compatible with Orable based on Postgresql announced a round of funding bringing an additional $10 million, for a total of $37 millions raised in 4 years. Investors include IBM and earlier investors Charles River Ventures, Fidelity Ventures, and Valhalla Partners.

Furthermore, Enterprisedb announces the publication of their GridSQL, their business intelligence and data warehousing solution, under the GPL license. It was formerly a proprietary product.

This 8.3 release of Postgresql announced today includes several performance features like Asynchronous Commit, Spread Checkpoints and L2 Cache Protection as well as features useful for DBAs (CSV Logging, SQL/XML, ENUMs, etc). A look at the features matrix also show that other features made their way in the release, such as

• Autovacuum enabled by default
• Order by nulls
• loadable plugin infrastructure for monitoring the planner
• updatable cursors
• Full Text Search

Jitterbit released version 1.3 of their data integration tool, which now includes native connectivity to LDAP/Active Directory and a new syntax on the formula builder. It provides a graphical interface, including for the LDAP connector. It is licensed under the Jitterbit Public License, which is not validated by the Open Source Initiative.

Cybertec released Cybercluster 1.0, their multimaster synchronous replication solution for Postgresql, also supporting load balancing, and available on multiple operating systems, under the BSD license. It is available for download as source archive, Debian package and windows installer.

A new version of EnterpriseDB Postgres is now available from EnterpriseDB's Postgres Resource Center. This latest release contains a procedural language debugger, enabling users to debug code written in the plpgsql language. It supports step-by-step execution, watching and setting variable values, conditional breakpoints, inspecting the execution stack, all with a GUI for ease of use. The debugger was previously a proprietary component.

The mysql-to-postgresql migration tool, previously only available as a proprietary component of EnterpriseDB Advanced Server, is now released under the Artistic License, approved by the Open Source Initiative.

The Observatoire du Logiciel Libre published its latest report on the Free and Open Source software market in the enterprise, based on training organised for professionals. Although the conclusions cannot be considered as definitive because based on only one company providing trainings, the data unveiled can be used as one indicator of what is currently going on in the market.

The report is in french, but here are the trends comparing the first half of 2007 with the same period in 2006:

• The number of people trained rose 20%. The LAMP stack is still very popular, but the growth of Linux training slowed (+1% only), and the report attributed this to the arrival of Windows Server 2003.
• the trainings delivered become broader, becoming less technical, with for example trainings for SugarCRM and Jaspersoft's reporting solutions.
• Mysql, part of the LAMP stack, keeps growing with 40% more people trained
• Java is still popular, with a progression 66% more people trained
• Postgresql trainings number is stable. Postgresql seems to be used in more established companies and by specialists, relying on its most advanced features like PostGIS.
• the number of trainings delivered about OpenOffice stumbled by 80%. The report mentions that a lot of companies a getting OpenOffice directly, without trainings.

The last point would be worth further investigation: are companies really interestedin OpenOffice without trainings? Or do they have internal experts who deliver training inside the company?

Source: Toolinux

EnterpriseDB, provider of an Oracle-compatible database server based on Postgresql, launched the community based Postgresql Resource Center "for enterprise application developers and DBAs". EnterpriseDB also proposes a "professional-grade distribution of PostgreSQL".