LiberateDB and PostgreSQL

enhance your competitive advantage

Are you tired of paying too much for support charges for software from your proprietary database vendor? Next year’s support charges almost certainly will increase again. Do you feel like you’re a captive to that vendor and have no other choices? You do now!

If you have your own home-grown applications that give you a competitive advantage, Bull’s LiberateDB can help you enhance that advantage. Bull’s dedicated group of engineers includes experienced professionals with the tools and know-how to help relieve the pain of higher support charges, while providing comparative functionality to your current proprietary database vendor.

Bull is dedicated to Open Software, and especially to PostgreSQL.

Here are some of the advantages of an open PostgreSQL database:

• Immunity to Over-Deployment Nobody can sue you for breaking licensing agreements. There’s no associated licensing cost for PostgreSQL software.
• Better Support from Bull Bull has a vibrant community of PostgreSQL professionals and enthusiasts that can provide better support than other proprietary vendors.
• Significant Savings on Staffing Costs PostgreSQL software retains the features, stability and performance of the leading proprietary databases, but with much lower maintenance and tuning requirements.
• Practical Training Programs Bull’s training programs are cost effective, manageable and practical in the real world.
• Proven Reliability and Stability Unlike many proprietary databases, companies often report that their PostgreSQL has never, ever crashed over several years of high-activity operation. It just works!
• Extensibility Since PostgreSQL source code is available to all at no charge, your staff can customize or extend PostgreSQL in any way, with minimal effort and no attached costs.
• Cross-Platform Availability PostgreSQL is available for almost every brand of Unix/Linux (34 platforms with the latest stable release) and Windows.
• High-Volume Environments PostgreSQL uses a multiple row data storage strategy called MVCC, which makes PostgreSQL extremely responsive in high-volume environments. The leading proprietary database vendor uses this technology as well – for the same reasons.
• GUI Database Design and Administration Tools Many high-quality GUI tools are available for PostgreSQL from open source developers and commercial providers.

Considering Migrating from a Proprietary Database Vendor?

Bull may be able to help you save up to 80% on support costs, and uncover other ways to limit and prevent additional costs.
If you are considering migrating from a proprietary database vendor, have you asked yourself these questions?

• Could I do the migration myself?
• If so, will it divert my staff from other strategic projects?
• How long will it take?
• How will it affect my applications?
• Can I convert one database at a time?
• Can I mix databases?
• Can I partner with someone who has experience?
• What kind of support is available?

If so, then Bull can help you answer these questions. Bull has a set of tools for evaluating your database and providing specifics about migrating to PostgreSQL.

Considering Migrating to Another Database?

Bull can provide you with a free analysis of what it would take to migrate to another database. We have done migrations to SQL Server, and we have the tools to help make any of your database migrations easier.