Ingres Project Commencement

Name: Ingres Project Commencement
Start: 1973-01-01
Location: University of California, Berkeley, USA

Michael Stonebraker leads the Ingres project, developing a relational database system that would later become a commercial success and a predecessor to POSTGRES.

Significance

Laid the foundational database expertise at Berkeley and demonstrated the commercial viability of academic research, influencing Stonebraker's later work.

Key facts

Date: 1973-01-01
Type: invention
Location: University of California, Berkeley, USA