On Thu, February 9, 2006 12:58 pm, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Thursday 09 February 2006 06:06, Steve Holdoway wrote: >> On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 22:51:29 +1300 >> >> Wesley Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I'm currently downloading Ingres, the formerly CA-ed dbms. >> > http://www.ingres.com/ is where it's at, more specifically at >> > http://www.ingres.com/products/Prod_Download_Portal.html : >> > >> > "Ingres 2006 is available under a dual licensing model. > > [ ... ] > >> I look forward to it. Ingres was the first rdbms I used back in the >> 80's, and I have been meaning to see how well a really mature product >> like this stacks up against the young pretenders, especially MySQL and >> Postgres. > What would be especially interesting would be to hear how Ingres has > matured, and a comparison between it as it is now and its direct child - > PostgreSQL. Would you feel able to give a talk on the subject later in the > year? > > Interesting links:- > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-advocacy/2004-12/msg00033.php > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postgres > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingres > > -- > CS > I would think that it might have a bit of a limited interest... these days the most important thing to most peeople is the availability of an API to $MyFaveLanguage ( and hopefully later the power/readability of the language used to write stored procedures ).
Maybe an intro to database design incorporating both? Or should that be done in MySQL? Comments gratefully received and I'll see that I can do in my spare(!) time. Steve -- Let us have a moment of silence for all Americans who are now stuck in traffic on their way to a health club to ride a stationary bicycle. - Congressman Earl Blumenauer (Oregon)
