Re: [GENERAL] Postgres vs commercial products

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...