Infor is also gaining customers because of the buildup of maintenance costs for products from companies like Oracle and SAP over years. The cost, Phillips says, is "not much difference from cloud subscriptions and it's not for a modern platform." Cloud revenue also improves the company's margins because administration and updating is done once for all customers. Meanwhile, Infor is replacing its databases with open source. Infor has Enterprise DB, a PostgresSQL database company "on retainer to allow our applications to scale." Infor LN is already utilizing Postgres and the database is being implemented for other applications. Phillips also described plans to aggressively seek business from federal agencies and the retail market. Federal agencies "are looking at an alternative to SAP, so we are going to go after that market," Phillip said. He described the market as one in which the annual rise in maintenance prices is forcing users to look for less-expensive choices. Phillips also said that for the retail space, "We are building a next-generation platform for POS and merchandising, all in the cloud." Retailers are being driven by pressure from Amazon and WalMart to seek improved platforms, he continued.