Dave Litwack Elected to EnterpriseDB Board of Directors; Founder of Powersoft, SilverStream to Join Enterprise Open Source Database Team.ISELIN, N.J. -- EnterpriseDB EnterpriseDB is a privately-held company that develops and supports EnterpriseDB Advanced Server, a proprietary relational database management system (RDBMS) built on PostgreSQL and targeted for the enterprise market. , the world's leading enterprise open source database company, announced today that software industry veteran Dave Litwack has been elected to the EnterpriseDB board of directors. Litwack joins Philip Philip, tetrarch of Ituraea Philip, d. A.D. 34, tetrarch of Ituraea, son of Herod the Great. He was perhaps the ablest of the Herod dynasty. He is mentioned in the Gospel of St. Luke. Merrick Merrick, uninc. city (1990 pop. 23,042), Nassau co., SE N.Y., on Long Island. Although chiefly residential, it has some light manufacturing. , chairman, Andy Astor, founder and chief executive officer, Denis Denis, king of Portugal: see Diniz. Lussier, founder and chief architect, Jack Lewis, Gene Riechers, Austin Austin. 1 City (1990 pop. 21,907), seat of Mower co., SE Minn., on the Cedar River, near the Iowa line; inc. 1868. The commercial and industrial center of a rich farm region, it is noted as home to the Hormel meatpacking company, whose Spam Town museum Westerling, and Dave Power on the company's board. Biographies of all the company's directors may be found on the company's website at www.enterprisedb.com. "We are very pleased to welcome Dave to the board, as this is an exciting time in the evolution of the company. We have recently closed $20 million in new financing, and this month we received the LinuxWorld Product Excellence Award for Best Database Solution, beating Oracle and other open source competition, for the second consecutive year," said Andy Astor, chief executive officer, EnterpriseDB. "Dave's substantial experience in the database and enterprise software businesses will make him an invaluable asset as EnterpriseDB accelerates its growth. We are looking forward to working with Dave as EnterpriseDB continues to transform the enterprise database market." Litwack served as executive vice president responsible for product development at Cullinet Software, a mainframe database management company. Subsequently, he founded Powersoft, the leading client/server development tool vendor. Powersoft was acquired by Sybase, where Litwack, as executive vice president, again headed all product development. After helping to drive the first two major phases of computing computing - computer -- mainframes and client/server -- Litwack became co-founder and chief executive officer of SilverStream Software, one of the first companies to provide a Java-based application server. SilverStream was acquired by Novell, where Litwack served as senior vice president until 2005. Litwack also serves on the boards of directors of 170 Systems and mValent. About EnterpriseDB Corporation EnterpriseDB develops and supports EnterpriseDB Advanced Server, an enterprise-class relational database management system relational database management system - relational database (RDBMS (Relational DataBase Management System) See relational database and DBMS. RDBMS - relational database ) that is built on PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database. EnterpriseDB Advanced Server is compatible with Oracle applications, has the reliability and scalability necessary for high-volume, mission-critical enterprise use, and is very affordable. EnterpriseDB has offices in the U.S., Europe, and Asia and is the world's leading provider of enterprise-class PostgreSQL-based products and services. EnterpriseDB was founded in March, 2004, and is headquartered in Iselin, N.J. For more information, please contact +1-732-331-1300 or visit www.enterprisedb.com. |
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