"The secret sauce is that the company uses extensions to the
flexible open source database PostgreSQL. IBM has a stake in the
company, it has an ongoing partnership with Japan's NTT, and it is
posting some strong numbers and milestones, including these newly
reported metrics for 2008:
"50% growth in new customer accounts, including customer wins
at The Los Angeles Times and hi5 Networks
The launch of the Postgres Plus product family, including the
open source Postgres Plus Standard Server and the commercially
licensed, Oracle-compatible Postgres Plus Advanced Server
$16 million Series C venture capital financing
Strategic partnerships with IBM and NTT, the largest
telecommunications company in Japan
The hire of Ed Boyajian as the company's new CEO
Significant code contributions to the PostgreSQL
community"