Continuent joins Open Source for America

SAN JOSE, USA: Continuent, Inc., provider of commercial open source solutions for continuous data availability, advanced database replication and scale-out solutions has announced 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.

"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," added Thomas.

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."