Open Enterprise Interview: Denis Lussier

"GM: To set the scene, could you give a little history of the PostgreSQL program that your product is built on?

"DL: Postgres has been in continuous development for more than twenty years and, in the process, has acquired a stability, a maturity, and a sophistication that cause many to regard it as the world's most advanced open source database.

"Postgres has its roots in the Ingres project that was hosted at the University of California at Berkeley in the 1980s and 1990s..."

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