Cleanwise Chooses EnterpriseDB for Cost Savings, Scalability, and High Availability

WESTFORD, MA, Jun 30 (MARKET WIRE) --
EnterpriseDB, the leading enterprise-class open source database company,
announced today that Cleanwise, the industry leader in procurement
management of not-for-resale janitorial and sanitation supplies, has
chosen EnterpriseDB Postgres Plus Advanced Server to complement
Cleanwise's existing Oracle deployment. Cleanwise will replicate its
Oracle database onto Postgres Plus Advanced Server for order processing,
reducing the load on the Oracle database and providing increased
scalability and reliability. The company estimates that the EnterpriseDB
solution cost only 20% of a comparable Oracle solution. For more
information about Postgres Plus Advanced Server, visit
www.enterprisedb.com.

Cleanwise provides its customers with innovative and advanced Web-based
(SaaS) procurement, customer relationship management, and supply chain
logistics applications for managing thousands of customer locations,
customizing product offerings, applying customer-specific spending
controls, and integrating with hundreds of vendors. Cleanwise's legacy
Oracle database stores approximately 150GB of data and processes 5,000
commercial transactions each day. However, the company's rapid growth
caused the database to reach critical capacity thresholds.

To address this issue, Cleanwise designed a two-tiered database
architecture in which secondary databases would replicate its primary
Oracle database to achieve unlimited scalability and provide
high-availability. Like many companies, Cleanwise chose to leverage open
source software for cost savings and evaluated the MySQL and PostgreSQL
open source databases. During the evaluation, Cleanwise experienced
concurrency issues with MySQL and determined it to be unsuitable for
mission-critical transactional applications.

Cleanwise chose EnterpriseDB as its PostgreSQL vendor because the
company's Postgres Plus Advanced Server database product offers many
advantages over community PostgreSQL. Postgres Plus Advanced Server is a
commercially licensed superset of PostgreSQL that adds many advanced
capabilities, including the ability to run applications written for
Oracle. EnterpriseDB also provides automated tools to migrate from Oracle
to Postgres Plus Advanced Server.

"Postgres Plus Advanced Server's Oracle compatibility gave us confidence
that our initiative to deploy open source databases alongside Oracle would
be successful," said Keith Alsheimer, president, Cleanwise. "EnterpriseDB
also provides us with enterprise-grade technical support and with
industry-standard warranties and indemnification, turning our database
investment into a strategic asset."

Cleanwise's existing Oracle application is now running trouble-free on
both Oracle and Postgres Plus Advanced Server, and the company considers
the two systems to be functionally equivalent. Between two and three
man-weeks of effort were required to reach this milestone. Soon,
Cleanwise will take the Postgres Plus Advanced Server databases into
production, realizing the company's vision for an affordable IT
infrastructure with a highly scalable and reliable database layer.

"Cleanwise's strategy to replicate its Oracle database to Postgres Plus
Advanced Server is a great example of a recurring EnterpriseDB use case,"
said Ed Boyajian, chief executive officer, EnterpriseDB. "In this economy,
every prudent organization is vigilant about cost containment. Cleanwise
and other EnterpriseDB customers demonstrate that open source software can
be leveraged to this end, even without the risk and disruption of a
'rip-and-replace' effort."

About EnterpriseDB

EnterpriseDB is the leading provider of enterprise-class products and
services based on PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source
database. The company's Postgres Plus products are ideally suited for
transaction-intensive applications requiring superior performance, massive
scalability, and compatibility with proprietary database products.
EnterpriseDB has offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. The company
was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Westford, Mass. For more
information, please call +1-978-589-5700 or visit www.enterprisedb.com.

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