EnterpriseDB, the company providing products based on the open source Postgresql database server, named a new CEO, Ed Boyajian, former Red Hat vice president and general manager of North American sales.

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.

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.

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".