Re: Progress, anything in common with PostgreSQl besides clever name?

"Ian Harding" <ianh@tpchd.org> writes:

> I have just talked to a salesman who is pitching a Progress based accounting
> package.  I did a quick look at the marketing propaganda on their website,
> and a search of postgresql.org and can't find where they talk about each
> other.  I see in Bruce's book mention of Ingres, but not Progress.
>
> Is their clever name (or unfortunate name, if you are searching the web for
> information) just a coincidence, or is there a connection?

Progress is a proprietary SQL database that's been around for a
while.  No relation to Postgres that I know of, but I could be wrong.

-Doug
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