Re: [GENERAL] Postgres vs commercial products

[The Hermit Hacker]

On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > 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.

        I stand corrected...I didn't even *know* there was a University
Ingres :(