EnterpriseDB announced on Tuesday that it had <A HREF="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/03/25/EnterpriseDB-pulls-away-from-Suns-orbit-embraces-IBM_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/03/25/EnterpriseDB-pulls-away-from-Suns-orbit-embraces-IBM_1.html">raised $10 million from funders including IBM,</A> which took a small but symbolically laden stake in the four-year-old open-source database maker.

EnterpriseDB's products are based around the open-source PostgreSQL technology, a rival to the more popular MySQL. For several years, Sun Microsystems had been one of the strongest supporters of PostgreSQL, bundling it with its Solaris 10 operating system and partnering with EnterpriseDB to provide support.