Re: EnterpriseDB funding

On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 15:48:56 -0700,
  Ron Mayer <rm_pg@cheapcomplexdevices.com> wrote:
> Congrats EnterpriseDB guys!
>
> http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050907005471&newsLang=en
> "        September 07, 2005 09:00 AM US Eastern Timezone
>   EnterpriseDB Corporation Announces $7 Million in Venture
>   Capital Financing; Charles River Ventures, Valhalla Partners
>   Co-Lead Investment in Provider of Open-Source-Based Database...
> "
> (for the guys who don't know, Charles River is one of the
> top-tier VCs in the same league as the guys behind mysql)
>
>
> It'll be fun to see how you guys use this money.  One idea
> that I'm sure you already thought of - perhaps team with a
> cost effective HW provider like Rackable and win
> the price/performance TPC benchmarks).

Getting funded by a VC isn't always that great.
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/resource/sep01/speak.html
http://www.waxy.org/random/arsdigita/