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From: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Ingres Phasing Out at Berkeley
Keywords: irony
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Date: 17 May 89 18:42:04 GMT
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Yesterday I saw a memo notifying us that Ingres would
be phased out of the computer center here in Berkeley
where Ingres was first developed. Apparently, the
license has expired and they decided it was too much
work, too expensive, and too much of a drain on
hardware resources to maintain it. We are getting
six-months advance warning.

That doesn't mean Ingres will disappear here. Our
huge database, for example, was already planning
to move to a machine owned by the EECS department,
which is a separate niche in the bureaucracy as far
as computing equipment is concerned. However, even
that is a stopgap as we expect to be out of Ingres
in another year or so when a campuswide database
goes into effect.

I thought this development might be of more general
interest.

Steve Goldfield