On Tue, 29 May 2001 21:55:18 +0100, Paul Sharpe wrote:
> Jonathan Stowe wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 May 2001, Paul Sharpe wrote:
> > > Doesn't PostgreSQL carry on the Illustra tradition?
> >
> > It went to Informix most recently and then of course to IBM.
>
> But didn't it come *from* Postgres?
Yes, Illustra and PostgreSQL both have their roots in the Postgres DBMS. "Illustra
[...] picked up the code and commercialized it" in 1992 (from
http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?history.html)
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