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.
Read on..