POSTGRES

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

POSTGRES

   <database> An {active DBMS} developed at the {University of
   California at Berkeley} by a team led by Michael Stonebraker
   (1986-1994).  Postgres was later taken by {Illustra} and
   developed into a commercial product, which in turn was bought
   by {Informix} and integrated into their product, {Universal
   Server}.

   {PostgreSQL} is a further development of the original POSTGRES
   code as a {free software} alternative to commercial {DBMS}
   vendor offerings.

   [Details?  Reference?  Relationship to {Ingres}?]

   (1999-07-04)