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From: larry@postgres.uucp (Larry Rowe)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Postgres
Message-ID: <2931@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>
Date: 2 May 88 19:33:22 GMT
References: <2458@mandrill.CWRU.Edu>
Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu
Reply-To: larry@postgres.UUCP (Larry Rowe)
Organization: Postgres Research Group, UC Berkeley
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Keywords: DBMS, Object Oriented Systems, RTI

In article <2458@mandrill.CWRU.Edu> ananth@mandrill.CWRU.Edu (ananth srinivasan) writes:
>Does anyone know if there is a version of POSTGRES that is
>available and can be purchased? What hardware environments
>does it run on? Details would be appreciated. Anyone from
>RTI out there?? Please e-mail your replies.

Postgres is a reseach prototype system being developed at the University
of California at Berkeley by Mike Stonebraker and I.  We have not distributed
it to anyone outside of our research groups yet.  We hope to distribute version
1.0 (a limited function, slow, and probably buggy system) to a small group
of alpha test sites (approx. 15) sometime this summer.  As we complete more
of the system and it becomes more stable we plan to distribute it more
widely.  I want to emphasize that this is a research prototype developed
at U.C. Berkeley.  It will be a public domain system that we distribute
(source included) to anyone who wants it.  RTI and other database vendors
are free to pick the code up and do with it what they want.  but, please
don't expect much any time soon.  Postgres is currently in about the same
state University Ingres was in late 1975.  It took 3 years to finally
round out that system.
	larry rowe