EnterpriseDB takes custody of Itanium PostgreSQL
The news about the release of EnterpriseDB Postgre Plus Advanced Server 9.0 , the main feature of which was the addition of the HP-UX / Itanium platform, passed somehow unnoticed in runet. I decided to fill this gap and translate an article on this topic, which, by the way, complements my previous posts well:
- How will the opposition between HP and Oracle affect Open Source?
- Opposition HP and Oracle. Continued.
Attention, translation is abbreviated! (Honestly, I undertook to translate only because of the last paragraph, read it necessarily. ;-)
EnterpriseDB takes custody of Itanium PostgreSQL
EnterpriseDB, a commercial company that provides technical support services for an open source PostgreSQL DBMS and is developing its advanced, Oracle-compatible version, is now in a winning situation. Hewlett-Packard was involved in legal proceedings related to the termination of the development of DBMS, middleware and other software from Oracle for future Itanium-processors, so the expansion of support for EnterpriseDB on HP-UX / Itanium is very useful.
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But the prerequisites for such a turn of events, yet were. HP turned to EnterpriseDB in January or February, before a problem with Itanium arose, but after the takeover by Oracle of Sun Microsystems. At that time, Mark Hurd, the former head of Hewlett-Packard, joined Oracle as a co-president and a crack appeared in the relationship between the old partners.
The reason HP and EnterpriseDB started working on the official support for the HP-UX / Itanium platform were the requests of some HP customers, rather than the premonition of the March actions of Oracle.
Open PostgreSQL DBMS has long been running on HP-UX systems, both with PA-RISK and Itanium processors. Anyone can download the source code, dig into it, compile it and look at the PostgreSQL work. But for corporate data centers where business applications run, this is not appropriate. They are accustomed to binaries for target platforms and a high level of vendor support.
With the advent of EnterpriseDB, not only commercial support for PostgreSQL will be available on HP-UX, but also additional functionality. EnterpriseDB has two editions of the DBMS - Standard and Advanced. The first is the pre-configured, open version of the PostgreSQL DBMS, and the second is the bundle of add-ons, including the compatibility layer with the Oracle DBMS, the source code of which is not available. Both Postgre Plus editions, Standard and Advanced, can run on HP-UX. Thus, full support of the platform is provided.
Two of the six key PostgreSQL developers work in EnterpriseDB, and the company has no doubt about the ability to migrate databases from Oracle to Advanced Server. Developers are committed to reorienting existing applications to their DBMS. Over the years, the company has developed a system for assessing the possibility of migration from Oracle, which scans the database, scripts and code to figure out how difficult it will be to migrate.
HP can no longer be idle. It must buy IBM’s share in EnterpriseDB and become a full-fledged player in the database market. The head of HP, Leo Apotheker, seeks to increase the profitability of the software business, but then you need to act more decisively and buy Red Hat. Then HP will get its software stack (OS, middleware, DBMS) and will be able to withstand Oracle and IBM. Although the growth of the EnterpriseDB customer base is not bad today, it could be even more rapid with the HP R & D department (research and development department) and a wide sales channel. But the need to purchase Red Hat is simply obvious.
- How will the opposition between HP and Oracle affect Open Source?
- Opposition HP and Oracle. Continued.
Attention, translation is abbreviated! (Honestly, I undertook to translate only because of the last paragraph, read it necessarily. ;-)
EnterpriseDB takes custody of Itanium PostgreSQL
EnterpriseDB, a commercial company that provides technical support services for an open source PostgreSQL DBMS and is developing its advanced, Oracle-compatible version, is now in a winning situation. Hewlett-Packard was involved in legal proceedings related to the termination of the development of DBMS, middleware and other software from Oracle for future Itanium-processors, so the expansion of support for EnterpriseDB on HP-UX / Itanium is very useful.
')
But the prerequisites for such a turn of events, yet were. HP turned to EnterpriseDB in January or February, before a problem with Itanium arose, but after the takeover by Oracle of Sun Microsystems. At that time, Mark Hurd, the former head of Hewlett-Packard, joined Oracle as a co-president and a crack appeared in the relationship between the old partners.
The reason HP and EnterpriseDB started working on the official support for the HP-UX / Itanium platform were the requests of some HP customers, rather than the premonition of the March actions of Oracle.
Open PostgreSQL DBMS has long been running on HP-UX systems, both with PA-RISK and Itanium processors. Anyone can download the source code, dig into it, compile it and look at the PostgreSQL work. But for corporate data centers where business applications run, this is not appropriate. They are accustomed to binaries for target platforms and a high level of vendor support.
With the advent of EnterpriseDB, not only commercial support for PostgreSQL will be available on HP-UX, but also additional functionality. EnterpriseDB has two editions of the DBMS - Standard and Advanced. The first is the pre-configured, open version of the PostgreSQL DBMS, and the second is the bundle of add-ons, including the compatibility layer with the Oracle DBMS, the source code of which is not available. Both Postgre Plus editions, Standard and Advanced, can run on HP-UX. Thus, full support of the platform is provided.
Two of the six key PostgreSQL developers work in EnterpriseDB, and the company has no doubt about the ability to migrate databases from Oracle to Advanced Server. Developers are committed to reorienting existing applications to their DBMS. Over the years, the company has developed a system for assessing the possibility of migration from Oracle, which scans the database, scripts and code to figure out how difficult it will be to migrate.
HP can no longer be idle. It must buy IBM’s share in EnterpriseDB and become a full-fledged player in the database market. The head of HP, Leo Apotheker, seeks to increase the profitability of the software business, but then you need to act more decisively and buy Red Hat. Then HP will get its software stack (OS, middleware, DBMS) and will be able to withstand Oracle and IBM. Although the growth of the EnterpriseDB customer base is not bad today, it could be even more rapid with the HP R & D department (research and development department) and a wide sales channel. But the need to purchase Red Hat is simply obvious.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/122797/
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