SAN FRANCISCO - April 29, 2008 - WaveMaker™, a provider of open source tools for rapid Web application development, today announced they have joined the EnterpriseDB Blade Partner Program. Under terms of the agreement, WaveMaker will include EntepriseDB's Postgres Plus product as part of WaveMaker's next major platform release. The result is the first open source What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWIG) Web application development and deployment platform for the open-source market.
"At WaveMaker, our vision is to be the PowerBuilder of Web 2.0," said Christopher Keene, CEO of WaveMaker. "By partnering with EnterpriseDB, we can offer a complete open-source WYSIWYG development platform - for aspiring Web developers, this is an easy on-ramp for building and deploying rich Internet applications."
WaveMaker will extend its customer support network to include support for EnterpriseDB customers, and EnterpriseDB will provide prospect leads to new EnterpriseDB customers interested in WaveMaker's Web 2.0 application development platform. The two companies will also conduct joint sales and marketing activities, and WaveMaker will create sample applications for developers that demonstrate the productivity gains from combining the WaveMaker Visual Ajax Platform with the EnterpriseDB database.
"EnterpriseDB Blade Partners offer compelling solutions that are complementary to or integrated with EnterpriseDB's Postgres Plus and Postgres Plus Advanced Server products," said Bob Zurek, chief technology officer, EnterpriseDB. "We are excited about the high quality and enthusiasm of the first companies to become part of the Blade Partner Program, and we think Blade customers will be delighted by the assured product interoperability and solution-based customer support."
Availability
The combined offering from WaveMaker and EnterpriseDB will be available through WaveMaker in June 2008. For more information, please call Cal Ball at (415) 357-0210.
WaveMaker Visual Ajax Studio 3.2 is available for free download at http://www.wavemaker.com/downloads/. For more information on enterprise support please visit http://www.wavemaker.com/.
About WaveMaker Visual Ajax Platform
The WaveMaker Visual Ajax Platform consists of two components: WaveMaker Visual Ajax Studio for WYSIWYG development and a rapid-deployment framework for deployment into a standard Java environment. The WaveMaker Platform enables developers to run complete Web applications without requiring other server licenses.
About WaveMaker Software
WaveMaker Software™, Inc. provides an easy-to-use, open source Web application development platform for aspiring Web developers. WaveMaker's Visual Ajax Studio is Web Fast and CIO SafeTM, enabling developers to quickly create and deploy Web applications that adhere to the CIO's architecture, security and data policies. WaveMaker Software is privately held and headquartered in San Francisco, California, and is funded by Allegis Capital, Sippl Investments, Hummer-Winblad and Worldview Technology Partners. For more information, please visit http://www.wavemaker.com/.
About EnterpriseDB
EnterpriseDB is the world's leading provider of enterprise-class products and services based on PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database. The company's Postgres Plus products are lightning-fast, massively scalable, and extremely reliable, making them ideal for high-volume, mission-critical applications. EnterpriseDB has offices throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. The company was founded in March 2004 and is headquartered in Edison, N.J. For more information, please contact +1-732-331-1300 or visit http://www.enterprisedb.com/.
WaveMaker Software, Visual Ajax Studio, Web Fast and CIO Safe are trademarks of WaveMaker Software. All other trademarks are property of their respective holders.
For More Information
Chloe Jackson, 415-357-0210 ext. 103
cjackson@wavemaker.com
or
Schwartz Communications, Inc.
Jen Spark, 415-512-0770
WaveMaker@schwartz-pr.com
