Thu, 2015-08-06 09:55maria-luisaraviol
MariaDB and Foedus paths crossed less than a year ago when I met
Paolo Messina at a two-day IBM event in Tuscany. IBM invited me,
as the MariaDB Italian representative, to introduce MariaDB as an
Open Source Solution for the POWER8 platform.
Foedus was there as one of the top Italian IBM Partners and as an
Italian ISV company that provides an ERP solution platform named
“Octobus”. Since 2008, Foedus has developed innovative solutions
and management tools using the LAMP stack as the foundation of
their technology. Foedus is at the same time open to other
platforms. Octobus, which has been developed in Java, also runs
on Windows platform.
When we met in October 2014, Foedus was about to test their
solution on a POWER8 machine. They wanted to consider POWER8 as
an option because of the great performance of POWER8 machines,
and because it was a great opportunity to run a native …
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