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EnterpriseDB Corp. of Westford has brought on board former Mass High Tech Women To Watch honoree Karen Tegan Padir as vice president of products and marketing. Padir recently left her role as vice president of MySQL and Software Infrastructure at Sun Microsystems Inc.
Padir spent 15 years at Sun Microsystems, with a one-year break from 2004 to 2005 when she served as vice president of engineering at Red Hat Inc. In 2007, when she was named a Woman To Watch, Padir was vice president of enterprise Java platforms for Sun Microsystems and took over her recent title after the acquisition of MySQL by Sun in 2008. Sun, in turn, was acquired by Oracle Corp. for $7.4 billion late last year. Padir said she left Sun because Oracle already had a group that did what her group did.
“I was running the MySQL and middleware business, and my group was the only group at Sun that was 100 percent overlap with Oracle,” she said. “Basically my job changed dramatically.”
At EnterpriseDB, Padir will be working with another version of the open source SQL database — PostgreSQL. She hopes to be able to help EnterpriseDB get the same level of enterprise adoption of PostgreSQL that MySQL has seen in the past few years.
“Customers want to have choice and they want alternatives,” she said.
Being able to get in on the ground floor of a growing platform was one thing that was attractive to Padir about EnterpriseDB, she said, although other things about the company drew her in as well. “The products, the market opportunity, the great products here. There is this whole PostgresPlus family of products,” she said.
Padir had previously worked with EnterpriseDB president and CEO Ed Boyajian when they both were at Red Hat, she said. Now she is hoping to catch as much of the market for open source products as she can for EnterpriseDB.
“We have to tune our business and monetization strategy for our business based on what the customer need is and the community need is,” Padir said. “This is a $20 billion market and we could take any piece of it.”
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