| From: | Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com> |
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| To: | John Zubac <jzubac(at)internetsecure(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Reid Thompson <reid(dot)thompson(at)ateb(dot)com>, pgsql general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Oracle tried to buy MySQL |
| Date: | 2006-02-16 16:41:05 |
| Message-ID: | 1140108065.22740.261.camel@state.g2switchworks.com |
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On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 08:44, John Zubac wrote:
> Isn't this article false in stating that Ingres is tring to build a high end open source database package. Isn't postgres based on Ingres if I'm correct in my history lesson. And postgres IS a high end open source database package.
Not exactly. Michael Stonebraker went back to the drawing board to
address the shortcoming of Ingres, and Post-Ingres -> Postgres was
born. That code base went on to eventually become PostgreSQL.
While Ingres and Postgres(ql) are kissing cousins, and probably share or
shared a lot of similarities, they did not start from the same code
base.
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