josh@bitbuckets.com wrote:
> August 24, 2004 - The PostgreSQL Global Development group today
> announced the availability of the landmark 8.0 version of the
> PostgreSQL ORDBMS. PostgreSQL, created in 1986 by UC Berkeley, is the
Spell out ORDBMS. Change UC Berkeley to University of California at
Berkeley.
> most advanced open source database in existence today. Version 8 is
> the collective work of over 200 developers.
> Point In Time Recovery: PITR expands the PostgreSQL enterprise
Drop "enterprise".
> The PostgreSQL database can be downloaded freely at
> http://www.postgresql.org.
A crude terminology reference:
"database" -- a collection of structured data
"database management system" -- software to manage databases
"database system" -- a database management system acting on a particular
database
So in this case, you can download the "database management system".
Actually, I would just say "software" here, because not all the
software that you can download is concerned with managing databases.
--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/