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...

University Ingres was first, then commercial Ingres was a split-off.
PostgreSQL is based on University Ingres.

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