Re: sun buys mysql

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Seth Grimes wrote:
> > On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Josh Berkus wrote:
> >
> > >> It's interesting that you guys don't pay any attention to Ingres.
> > >>
> > >> Why don't you?
> > >
> > > Do you know what "POSTGRES" stands for? "Post-INGRES".
> >
> > Postgres had a more advanced, object-relational model at the time of its
> > creation, hence the "post" naming, but Postgres was never until perhaps
> > recently as robust as Ingres, giving lie to the "post" naming in other
> > senses. The emergence of Postgres did not mean that Ingres stood still.
>
> Ha, that is a good one. ;-)
>
> Standing still is pretty much what Ingres did while owned by Computer
> Associates ("CA, where technology goes to die").

Oh, let me add I used Ingres from 1989 to 1999 and liked it very much.

CA did try to do some things with Ingres. Certainly when Postgres
started community development in 1996 Ingres was more capabile and
stable, but Postgres is advancing faster than any other existing
database so Ingres and others just can't keep up with us.

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