Re: illustra

Well actually, Informix paid $425 million for Illustra. We (Morgan Stanley) were the advisors on the deal. Illustra is not Postgres but some of the original concepts of Postgres were key to Illustra's architecture. According to Stonebraker, he learned a lot from his Postgres work, but built a much better product the second time around with Illustra. ====================================== Chuck Phillips, CFA, Esq. Software Industry Analyst Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. 1585 Broadway, 14th floor New York, NY 10036 1-800-MR CHUCK (best number) - roams with me - office, home, cellular) 212-761-4450 (main office in New York) Fax: 212-761-9659 compuserve:73766,1630 Pager: 1-800-759-8352 pin# 1998158 (on 24x7) Email my pager directly (1998158@skytel.com) internet:chasp@ms.com ========================================== On 10 Feb 1996 05:54:10 GMT Saeed Talebbeik <saeedt@ix.netcom.com> wrote: } Hi Mike, To the best of my knowledge your information is true. One of } the founders of "Illustra" is the Famous Dr. Stonebreaker from UC } Berkley. He was involved with the Ingres project in UC snd founded the } "Ingres" Corporation. The Postgres project was to add support for more } data types (video , text) on top of a relational engine. I am sure the } work that the Illustra engine has its origins in this project. } They paid over 200 million for Illustra. This move is in direct } response to the Oracle 7.3 Universal server. } Yes you can download Postgres probably free of charge. However Will it } perform ? Where is the support for it ? Who will help you if your data } gets corrupted? No one in the "real" corporate world will ever trust } their most valuable asset (The Corporate data) in the hands of a } database produced as a "University Project". } } Regards, } <<<Saeed>>> } Feb 9, 1996 } } } } } } In <4ff3gv$4un@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu> maubury@csl.gov.uk (Michael } Aubury) writes: } > } >I maybe wrong - but... } > } >I'm sure that illustra's OODB is based aound a product called } >POSTGRES, which is (I believe) freeware and which you can download } >(including source) from the net... } > } >I was just wondering how much informix paid for this leap in } >technology.... } > } > } >Mike Aubury }