Re: [HACKERS] [Fwd: Re: First Major Open Source Database] - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From darcy@druid.net (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Subject Re: [HACKERS] [Fwd: Re: First Major Open Source Database]
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In response to [Fwd: Re: First Major Open Source Database]  (Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>)
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Thus spake Lamar Owen
> [Ok, I've been in touch with the author of the 'First Major Open Source
> Database' article.  Here's what he wants to do.  Let me know what you
> think, and correct any misinformation I may have fed him.]
>  [...]
> - University Ingres, developed starting in 1977, qualifies for the 
> 'First Major Open Source Database' honor. Ingres is the direct 
> ancestor of PostgreSQL.

Not that it is so important but I think that Postgres was a different
project by the same person (Dr. Micheal Stonebraker) so it is probably
more accurate to call them siblings.

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