SearchOracle: Open Source EnterpriseDB Takes Aim at Oracle Customers

[ Thanks to Mark Brunelli for this link. ]

"Can you tell me a little about the new functionality EnterpriseDB announced today?

"Astor: Right now the [EnterpriseDB] database is Oracle compatible, so any application can talk to it. What we're announcing [now] is that in addition to the deep Oracle compatibility that we have today, we're coming out with a data version of update one of our software. What update one has is the ability to browse your Oracle databases as well as your EnterpriseDB databases and [migrate data] between them..."

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