An interesting piece I stumbled across regarding one of the RDBMS industry's notable pioneers.
Today, technology areas that catch Stonebraker's eye include wireless and data integration on the Web.
Started Ingres project in early 1970s at Berkeley to develop relational databases. Ingres Corp. formed in 1980.
Another Berkeley project, Postgres, yielded object relational databases and spawned Illustra Information Technologies in 1992.
Became Informix's CTO in 1996, holding that post until September 2000.
Launched Cohera, a maker of federated databases, in 1999, based on a Berkeley research project, Miraposa.
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