Continuent Sponsors PostgreSQL Conference East 08

Continuent Sponsors PostgreSQL Conference East 08; Showcases PostgreSQL High Availability Solutions

San Jose, Calif. ? February 28, 2008 ? Continuent, Inc., the leading provider of commercial open
source middleware solutions for database high-availability and scalability, today announced its
sponsorship of the PostgreSQL Conference East 08.  The conference takes place March 29-30, 2008, in
the Computer and Space Sciences Building at the University of Maryland College Park, and is
designed allow contributors, current users and future users/developers to learn and network.

?This is the second year we are happy to sponsor The PostgreSQL Community Conference series,? said
Eero Teerikorpi, CEO at Continuent. ?PostgreSQL community is very vibrant and PostgreSQL adoption
in the enterprises is increasing at very healthy pace. We are excited to project our plans for the
global PostgreSQL ecosystem and highlight our high-availability solutions and support programs.?

"Our goal is to establish a series of forums for local developers, administrators and users to
mingle with leading PostgreSQL contributors,? said Joshua D. Drake, PostgreSQL SPI Liaison. ?We
appreciate Continuent? sponsorship and effort advocating PostgreSQL use in business critical
solutions. We are using the conferences to raise funds to further development of PostgreSQL. The
sponsorship money we raise is used to support code efforts, advocacy efforts and community
building." 

At the conference, Robert Hodges, CTO at Continuent, will be delivering his talk on ?Portable
Scale-Out Benchmarks for PostgreSQL?.  His talk presents new open source tools that allow users to
set up and run database scale-out benchmarks easily. 

For more information about Continuent products, visit http://www.continuent.com.  For information
on Continuent's involvement in the open source community, visit http://www.continuent.org. Learn
more about PostgreSQL East 08 by visiting http://www.postgresqlconference.org.


About Continuent 
Continuent provides continuous data availability. Continuent develops and markets commercial
Continuent uni/cluster products and services based on Sequoia, a database-neutral, open source
database-clustering project (www.continuent.org). Continuent? commercial open source solutions are
currently available for EnterpriseDB?, MySQL® and PostgreSQL. Continuent? Sequoia open source
solutions are available for Microsoft® SQL Server, Oracle®, IBM® DB2®, and Sybase®.  Continuent is
headquartered in San Jose, CA, with research labs in Finland and France.  For more information,
please visit www.continuent.com. ?


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