Re: Progress, anything in common with PostgreSQl besides clever name?

From: Doug McNaught <doug(at)wireboard(dot)com>
To: "Ian Harding" <ianh(at)tpchd(dot)org>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Progress, anything in common with PostgreSQl besides clever name?
Date: 2001-10-24 18:50:22
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"Ian Harding" <ianh(at)tpchd(dot)org> writes:

> I have just talked to a salesman who is pitching a Progress based accounting
> package. I did a quick look at the marketing propaganda on their website,
> and a search of postgresql.org and can't find where they talk about each
> other. I see in Bruce's book mention of Ingres, but not Progress.
>
> Is their clever name (or unfortunate name, if you are searching the web for
> information) just a coincidence, or is there a connection?

Progress is a proprietary SQL database that's been around for a
while. No relation to Postgres that I know of, but I could be wrong.

-Doug
--
Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.
--T. J. Jackson, 1863

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