Nominate Tungsten as the Best Commercial Open Source project
Friday, 15 May 2009 00:00

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Nominate Tungsten For SourceForge.net 2009 Community Choice Award

San Jose, CA – May 15, 2009 – Continuent, Inc., a leading provider of commercial open source solutions for continuous data availability advanced database replication and scale-out solutions, invites nominations for the fourth annual SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards for Tungsten Clustering And Replication. The awards program allows the community to recognize open source software projects that are built with the highest quality, creativity and ingenuity.

"These awards showcase innovators who work together to create something new and fantastic," said Ross Turk, SourceForge Director of Community. "Unlike most award programs, we don't have a panel of experts choosing our finalists because we want the open source community to tell us, first hand, what the most exciting projects are. That's why we need your nominations!"

Nominations for Tungsten Clustering And Replication will be accepted until May 29th, and the ten projects with the most nominations in each category will become finalists. The winners will be announced at a party, held at the Agenda Lounge in San Jose, CA, starting at 6:00 pm PT on the night of July 23rd, during the week of OSCON.

For more information on the nomination process and to nominate , please visit: http://sourceforge.net/community/cca09/nominate/?project_name=Tungsten%20Clustering%20and%20Replication&project_url=http://tungsten.sourceforge.net/

Continuent Tungsten open source components are available at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=256125. These include:

  • Tungsten Replicator: create live copies of data and replicate flexibly across database types
  • Tungsten Connector: proxy native MySQL and PostgreSQL traffic into JDBC-based services Tungsten SQL Router: transparently handle failover, load-balancing, and partitioning
  • Tungsten Manager: issue broadcast commands, provision databases and fetch data from groups of processes
  • Tungsten Monitor: monitor resources and broadcast automatic state notification
  • Tungsten Finite State Machines: implement deterministic, easy-to-manage network services.

For more information about Continuent and our involvement in the open source community, visit http://www.continuent.com.

 

About Continuent

Continuent, the world's leading provider of Continuous Data Availability (CDA) solutions, offers continuous 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 solution provides 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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