EnterpriseDB to Help Educate Government Officials on Open Source Products; Pierre Fricke Comments

EnterpriseDB has signed up for the Coalition for Enterprise Open Source Software for Government to help educate Congress and administration officials on the value of open source systems.

The company will work to promote the adoption of open source software products in the federal sector through the non-profit member organization, EnterpriseDB said Tuesday.

“We’re looking forward to working with Congress and the administration to identify the opportunities and make it easy for government agencies to slash database costs by 80 percent or more and redirect budget to more strategic initiatives like security,” said Pierre Fricke, vice president of product management at EnterpriseDB.

EnterpriseDB provides security products for the PostgreSQL open source relational database.

Founded by Red Hat and Carahsoft Technology, CEOSSG aims to increase awareness of open source products among government agencies.