Floral company
FTD is making cost savings of
83% by migrating from an existing database system to
open-source for its shipping administration.
FTD, one of the largest floral firms in the world, has selected
the open-source
EnterpriseDB Server to
power the external reporting for its Argo shipping administration
system.
A major factor in FTD’s selection was EnterpriseDB’s ability to
run applications written for the original system, which
dramatically reduces migration costs
ARGO’s reporting subsystem originally ran on the original
database that supports FTD’s order-processing system, and was moved
to EnterpriseDB with only minor changes.
The EnterpriseDB solution cost FTD only one-sixth of the price
of a comparably configured solution from the original supplier. It
also enabled FTD to avoid costly hardware upgrades, driving
additional cost savings at the company.
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