Re: sun buys mysql

[Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>]

Seth Grimes wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Josh Berkus wrote:
> 
> >> It's interesting that you guys don't pay any attention to Ingres.
> >>
> >> Why don't you?
> >
> > Do you know what "POSTGRES" stands for?  "Post-INGRES".
> 
> Postgres had a more advanced, object-relational model at the time of its 
> creation, hence the "post" naming, but Postgres was never until perhaps 
> recently as robust as Ingres, giving lie to the "post" naming in other 
> senses.  The emergence of Postgres did not mean that Ingres stood still.

Ha, that is a good one.  ;-)

Standing still is pretty much what Ingres did while owned by Computer
Associates ("CA, where technology goes to die").

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