Ann W. Harrison wrote:

>>So Ingres spans more than three decades! When did the Ingres name come
>>into play? I thought that was the 1980's ?
>
> According to the Wikipedia, in 1973 Stonebraker and Wong had "had
> 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.

Thanks for that Ann.

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