| Subject | Re: [Firebird-general] Re: Worth a read? And how do we react to this perception? |
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| Author | Ann W. Harrison |
| Post date | 2006-07-06T19:34:49Z |
Lester Caine wrote:
already raised money for researching a geographic database system for
Berkeley's economics group, which they called Ingres, for INteractive
Graphics REtrieval System. They decided to use this money to fund their
relational project instead, and used this as a seed for a new and much
larger project." From the same source, Ingres left Berkeley in 1982
and Stonebraker returned to Berkeley in 1984.
Regards,
Ann
>According to the Wikipedia, in 1973 Stonebraker and Wong had "had
> So Ingres spans more than three decades! When did the Ingres name come
> into play? I thought that was the 1980's ?
already raised money for researching a geographic database system for
Berkeley's economics group, which they called Ingres, for INteractive
Graphics REtrieval System. They decided to use this money to fund their
relational project instead, and used this as a seed for a new and much
larger project." From the same source, Ingres left Berkeley in 1982
and Stonebraker returned to Berkeley in 1984.
Regards,
Ann