Success Stories

Sony Online Entertainment^® Replaces Oracle^® with EnterpriseDB
Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) is a recognized worldwide leader in massively multiplayer online games, with millions of gamers around the globe. Examining its business, SOE found that its Oracle databases were extremely expensive and that Oracle’s licensing practices were inflexible and restrictive. At the same time, the company experienced a constant demand for the creation and maintenance of additional databases. Read more

Florists' Transworld Delivery^® Replicates Oracle^® to EnterpriseDB
Florists' Transworld Delivery (FTD) is the world’s leading provider of floral-related products and services. In early 2007, FTD deployed a new shipping administration system, called ARGO, that was supported by a strategically important, external-facing reporting application based on Oracle.
On Valentine’s Day, 2007, the existing Oracle-based production infrastructure could not handle the reporting load. FTD solved its peak-time reporting overload challenge by replicating major portions of the production Oracle database onto Postgres Plus^® Advanced Server. Read more

NTT Group^®, Japan’s largest telecommunications company, collaborates with EnterpriseDB on highly scalable distributed database
Nippon Telephone and Telegraph, (NYSE: NTT), the largest telecommunications company in Japan, recognized several years ago the many benefits that open source software can provide, including cost savings, increased code quality, and deployment and maintenance flexibility. As a mega-carrier with extraordinarily large-scale operations, NTT has particularly demanding software requirements. For mission-critical, highly transactional systems, NTT chooses PostgreSQL on the basis of its superior performance, scalability, and reliability. Read more