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From: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Ingres Phasing Out at Berkeley
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Date: 23 May 89 15:41:17 GMT
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In article <3560039@wdl1.UUCP> mitchell@wdl1.UUCP (Jo Mitchell) writes:

#>	SO - what are they replacing INGRES with?  Postgres?

As far as I know, it isn't being replaced by any other
database on the university's cluster of VAXes.
In fairness, I should mention that
my group was the main one using Ingres on the university
machines and probably the only one paying for it in hard
cash, so our decision to move to a cheaper department
machine was probably the principal cause of dropping
Ingres. Still, I find it ironic that here in Berkeley,
where Ingres was born, it doesn't get much respect.

From what I've gathered reading this group, there are a
couple of relevant issues. First, it appears that commercial
versions of Ingres on other machines are better-supported
(e.g., having gone to Version 6.0). Second, I assume that
in a corporate environment in which the company has outright
purchased a computer and perhaps dedicated it for Ingres' use,
exorbitant charges for cpu time are not as relevant as they
are for us in which we pay, in cash, for our usage. As long
as your equipment is powerful enough not to be brought to
its knees by Ingres and as long as Ingres does its job,
presumably you are relatively satisfied. That hasn't been
the case here.

Steve Goldfield
Industrial Liaison Program
College of Engineering
University of California at Berkeley