Ann W. Harrison wrote:

> myles@... wrote:
>
>>>>Ingres has the longest history among all open source database
>>projects, spanning more than two decades
>>
>>Say what? First time I've heard that. Ingres, from my experience in
>>working with large govt customers that had it, was always a 'pay to play'
>>database until about a year ago.
>>
> What the author probably meant to say is that Ingres is one of the
> oldest database systems around. Stonebraker and Wong started the
> project that became Ingres in 1973. Oracle started in 1977. The
> DEC systems that eventually morphed into Firebird started in 1980.
> Ingres may be a recent convert to open source, but it's an ancient
> database.

So Ingres spans more than three decades! When did the Ingres name come
into play? I thought that was the 1980's ?

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