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With eye on Oracle and MySQL, Red Hat invests in EnterpriseDB

28.10.2009
Red Hat Inc. has invested an unspecified amount in open-source database vendor EnterpriseDB Inc., a sign that the Linux vendor may be worried about the implications of Oracle Corp.'s takeover of MySQL through its pending acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc.

The announcement was made in a by the Westford, Mass. database vendor.

Neither EnterpriseDB nor Red Hat immediately responded to requests for comment.

The move is notable because much of Red Hat's current popularity as a server platform is due to users looking to run the free MySQL on top of Red Hat as part of a LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL Python/Perl/PHP) server. EnterpriseDB sells a proprietary, Oracle-compatible database called PostgresPlus that is based around the open-source PostgreSQL technology.

The two companies had reportedly been EnterpriseDB CEO Ed Boyajian is also a former Red Hat vice president.

Boyajian said that the investment, part of a $19 million Series C round of funding, was a "significant amount of money."