| From: | Chris Travers <chris(dot)travers(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Andy Yoder <ayoder(at)airfacts(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: "Too far out of the mainstream" |
| Date: | 2012-09-01 14:53:04 |
| Message-ID: | CAKt_Zfs6kON6EG=7fHhnB_kfcOwPrjMwYvZjfPiQ8oH+QMV1Pg@mail.gmail.com |
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On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Chris Travers <chris(dot)travers(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
>
> > 1) While MySQL is perhaps better marketed, PostgreSQL is an older
> project
> > with a proud heritage (Informix started as a Postgres fork), and top-rate
>
> Pretty sure that's not true. Ingres is a cousin of Postgres started
> by the same guy, Stonebraker, but it's not a fork either.
>
As I understand it, Allura was started by Stonebraker as an attempt to
commercialize Postgres. It switched to SQL before Postgres did, and was
bought by Informix, renamed as Informix, and then bought by IBM.
Am I missing something?
Best Wishes,
Chris Travers
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