Re: sun buys mysql

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.

I'm not convinced that Postgres is more robust than Ingres even now. But
hey, I'm monitoring this list in order to learn.

Myself, I was an Ingres DBA back in '87-'92 and I was aware of Postgres
from close to its start. I also used Illustra heavily in '96-'97 to help
create dynamic, templated Web sites for some very visible clients. For
example, I helped create the first Web site and on-line reservation system
for Radisson Hotels and other Carlson brands. (I also first used MySQL in
that era.) I maintained the Radisson site until it was replaced in 2000.
The client didn't want to migrate it to Informix, however, and
unfortunately Postgres was FAR from up to the job.

Seth