UCB by a computer science professor named Michael Stonebraker,
who went on to become the CTO of Informix Corporation. Stonebraker
started Postgres in 1986 as a followup project to its predecessor, Ingres, now
-owned by Computer Associates. The name Postgres thus plays off of its successor (as
+owned by Computer Associates. The name Postgres thus plays off of its predecessor (as
in "after Ingres"). Ingres, developed from 1977 to 1985, had been an exercise in
creating a database system according to classic RDBMS theory. Postgres,
developed between 1986-1994, was a project meant to break new ground in database