The Place of Postgres in History

Bruce Momjian and Marc Linster discuss the origins, open-source evolution, and historical significance of PostgreSQL.

EDB Technical Fellow Marc Linster sits down with EDB Vice President & Postgres Evangelist Bruce Momjian to talk about the place of Postgres in history. Read the blog here: enterprisedb.com/blog/place-postgres-history Topics include: - When and where did Postgres start, and why that name? - When did it become open source? - Were you involved with Postgres from that moment on? Are any of the original team still working on Postgres? - Why did the Postgres project even start, when we had databases like Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Informix, MS Access? Was there a need? - I imagine that Postgres had no resources on Day 1, and probably for the first many years. How did you and the team manage? - How do you explain that Postgres turned out so well, without the usual trappings of the software process. No product management, no marketing, no sales engineers, … How could that even work? - Today Postgres has a reputation as being the most innovative database - was there a technical reason for that? - Developers seem to love Postgres. Why? - How could Postgres persevere, and even win, in an age of NoSQL and document databases? They were all the rage for a while. - Today Microsoft, VMWare, Google, Amazon, NTT, Fujitsu and many others are contributing to Postgres, but competing in the marketplace. How does that work? - Postgres has no HQ and no ‘Home Country’ -- how does this global process work?