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  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  POSTGRES 
 
    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) 
 
 

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