The Iselin, New Jersey-based company also created the EnterpriseDB Postgres Resource Center, which provides free downloads of the EnterpriseDB Postgres product as well as technical information, tools, and other resources.
While EnterpriseDB has previously focused on Oracle compatibility and replacement, it has recently begun targeting migration opportunities from Microsoft, Sybase, and MySQL deployments for the first time.
Creating a free packaged PostgreSQL distribution can therefore be seen as the company seeding the wider market. While there was always an obvious upgrade path from the open source PostgreSQL to EnterpriseDB Advanced Server, the EnterpriseDB Postgres offering makes the path more formal.
Advanced Server is already based on the open source database, but adds functionality such as performance, enterprise tools, and database compatibility. EnterpriseDB Postgres will provide a stepping-stone to that functionality.
While it is based on the latest PostgreSQL version it adds support for secure socket layer, XML, cryptography, database linking, full text search, additional languages and database connectors.
EnterpriseDB already provided support for standard PostgreSQL distributions. In January it launched two support offerings that are now available for EnterpriseDB Postgres or other PostgreSQL distributions.
