From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | bmccoy(at)lan2wan(dot)com, ahayes(at)ingenia(dot)com, pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] Postgres vs commercial products |
Date: | 1998-07-22 18:26:49 |
Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.3.96.980722142629.23582P-100000@hub.org |
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On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Brett W. McCoy wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Amos Hayes wrote:
> > >
> > > > Has there ever been any discussion about a new name? It doesn't matter to
> > > > me but it would seem that with the current discussions about promotion and
> > > > competition, it might help to have a more "public friendly" name. It is
> > > > not obvious to me what a "postgres" is nor what it would do if I were to
> > > > install it. Granted that "oracle", "informix", and "sybase" are all a
> > > > little strange too, but they give hints (oracle, inform, base) about
> > > > containing knowledge. They also seem to roll off the tongue a little
> > > > easier.
> > >
> > > Actually, I think Postgres originally came out of the Ingres family,
> >
> > Other way around, actually...Ingres is a branch off the original
> > Postgres source code...
>
> University Ingres was first, then commercial Ingres was a split-off.
> PostgreSQL is based on University Ingres.
I stand corrected...I didn't even *know* there was a University
Ingres :(
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