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Story: Oxford University's computer centre embraces PostgreSQL
Posted by: Emma K McGrattan (Thursday 11 November 2004, 12:48 AM)
Yes, you are correct. The name Postgres is a contraction of the term Post-Ingres and was a project started at UC Berkley by Dr. Michael Stonebraker, one of the founders of the Ingres project which also began life at UC Berkley.
There is no code shared between the two projects, but many of the ideas are similar.
Emma
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