Open Source for America Welcomes Continuent as Its Latest Member in Advocating Open Source in the U.S. Federal Government
San Jose, CA (PRWEB) July 22, 2009 -- Continuent, Inc., a leading provider of commercial open source solutions for continuous data availability, advanced database replication and scale-out solutions, announced today that it has joined Open Source for America, a broad cross-section of more than 50 companies, academic institutions, communities, related groups and individuals that serve as a unified voice for the promotion of open source in the U.S. Federal government sector. Open Source for America strives to effect change in government to encourage broader support of open source technologies and the open source development community.
"We've received great response from companies, organizations and individuals interested in joining together to advocate for greater use of open source software in the U.S. federal government," said David Thomas, principal at Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti and spokesman for the Open Source for America campaign. "We are very pleased to welcome Continuent in joining our cause and look forward to their active involvement in articulating the true value open source delivers to the U.S. government."
Continuent Tungsten harnesses the power of advanced open source and commercial technologies to deliver data availability and database performance scalability solutions that are based on the Tungsten open source components, a unique collection of solutions for database scale-out. Continuent Tungsten offers easy to manage, dynamic database clusters with the highest levels of availability and scalability for PostgreSQL, MySQL® and Oracle®.
"We are proud to join Open Source for America," said Eero Teerikorpi, CEO at Continuent. "We are seeing an increase in open source usage in U.S. government, with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) being a great example of an government agency embracing open-source software to lower its information technology operating costs, and one of our customers since 2006. For these agencies, data availability and scalability are an absolutely necessity."
As a member of Open Source for America, Continuent has pledged to support the organization's mission and its founding principles. This includes the belief that the U.S. federal government can and should become more transparent, participatory, secure and efficient by leveraging the advantages of open source software; the open source community can drive collaborative innovation for government; and the decision to use software should be driven solely by the requirements of the user.
To learn more about Open Source for America, please visit http://opensourceforamerica.org.
About Open Source for America:
Open Source for America is a coalition of industry leaders, associations, non-government groups and academic/research institutions organized to serve as a centralized advocate, to encourage broader U.S. Federal Government support of and participation in Free and Open Source projects and technologies. Membership in Open Source for America is open to any individual or entity signing the campaign's mission pledge. Learn more at http://opensourceforamerica.org. You can also follow Open Source for America on Twitter at https://twitter.com/OpenSourceGov.
About Continuent:
Continuent, the world's leading provider of data availability and database performance scalability solutions, offers database high availability and incremental performance scaling using commodity hardware and databases. We provide continuous uptime so you can deliver business critical database applications with high data availability and accessibility. We also offer support, training and consulting services to our customers worldwide.
Continuent's Tungsten solutions provide a unique collection of technologies for database scale-out. Tungsten stack is 100% open source. Tungsten is operating system independent and supports both commercial and open source databases including Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL and EnterpriseDB™.
For more information about Continuent and our products, visit www.continuent.com.
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Open Source for America Welcomes Continuent as Its Latest Member in Advocating Open Source in the U.S. Federal Government
Continuent, Inc. announced today that it has joined Open Source for America, a broad cross-section of more than 50 companies, academic institutions, communities, related groups and individuals that serve as a unified voice for the promotion of open source in the U.S. Federal government sector.