The Place of Postgres in History

EDB Technical Fellow Marc Linster sits down with EDB Vice President & Postgres Evangelist Bruce Momjian to talk about the place of Postgres in history.
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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?