Re: Informix

Posted in 2004

Ronald Cole — Tue, 20 Apr 2004 15:58:25 -0700 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Jonathan Leffler <jleffler@earthlink.net> writes: > The Wiki page claims that Informix used Ingres as a code base. I'm > pretty darned sure I've never seen any Ingres code in any of the > Informix products. Would anyone be aware of such code in Informix? Didn't Informix purchase Illustra in the mid-90's? IIRC, Illustra was the commercial version of Postgres, an object relational DB. -- Forte International, P.O. Box 1412, Ridgecrest, CA 93556-1412 Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com> Phone: (760) 499-9142 President, CEO Fax: (760) 499-9152 My GPG fingerprint: C3AF 4BE9 BEA6 F1C2 B084 4A88 8851 E6C8 69E3 B00B

↪ replying to Ronald Cole

Data Goob — Tue, 20 Apr 2004 21:14:28 -0400 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Ingres->Berkeley->Postgres->Informix->Illustra->Informix->SEC->Ascential->IBM->9.x "Ronald Cole" <ronald@forte-intl.com> wrote in message news:m3y8oqz27i.fsf@yakisoba.forte-intl.com... > Jonathan Leffler <jleffler@earthlink.net> writes: > > The Wiki page claims that Informix used Ingres as a code base. I'm > > pretty darned sure I've never seen any Ingres code in any of the > > Informix products. Would anyone be aware of such code in Informix? > > Didn't Informix purchase Illustra in the mid-90's? IIRC, Illustra was > the commercial version of Postgres, an object relational DB. > > -- > Forte International, P.O. Box 1412, Ridgecrest, CA 93556-1412 > Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com> Phone: (760) 499-9142 > President, CEO Fax: (760) 499-9152 > My GPG fingerprint: C3AF 4BE9 BEA6 F1C2 B084 4A88 8851 E6C8 69E3 B00B