POSTGRES

POSTGRES

(database)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 anddeveloped into a commercial product, which in turn was boughtby Informix and integrated into their product, Universal Server.

PostgreSQL is a further development of the original POSTGREScode as a free software alternative to commercial DBMSvendor offerings.