Artifact Details

Title

Stonebraker, Michael oral history

Catalog Number

102635858

Type

Document

Description

Michael Stonebraker has been one of the most creative innovators and serial entrepreneurs in the relational database management field (and in other software areas). He was a primary player (along with Gene Wong) in the design and development of INGRES while at the University of California at Berkeley in the 1970s and in founding of the Ingres Corporation with Gene and Larry Rowe in the early 1980s. Ingres became a major player in the RDBMS marketplace competing against Oracle and the other significant companies in the field. In the early 1990s he was the leader in creating Postgres and Illustra which extended the use of the relational structure into areas other than business data. Then he was involved as an executive with ASK, Cohera, Vertica Systems and Streambase. He continues to be an active leader in a multi university technology project in the New England region.

Date

2007-08-23

Contributor

Grad, Burt, Interviewer
Hendrie, Gardner, Cameraperson
Rawlings, Nicholas, Editor
Stonebraker, Michael, Interviewee

Publisher

Computer History Museum

Place of Publication

Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire

Extent

64 p.

Category

Transcription

Subject

ASK Computer Systems; Chen, Peter; CODASYL; Codd, Ted; Cohera; CSAIL; Date, C.J. (Chris); DB2; Ellison, Larry; Forrester, Jay; Gates, Bill; Google, Inc.; Gray, Jim; Held, Jerry; Illustra; Ingres Corporation; Kurtzig, Sandy; Chamberlin, Don; Mariposa; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Morgenthaler, Gary; Nackerud, Jon; Naylor, Arch W.; ODBC (Open Database Connectivity); OLTP (Online Transaction Processing); Oracle; POSTGRES; Princeton University; QUEL; Relational Technology, Inc.; Rowe, Lawrence (Larry); SQUARE; StreamBase; Sybase; System R; Thompson, Ken; University of California, Berkeley; Vertica Systems; White, Phil; Wong, Eugene; Zdonik, Stan

Collection Title

Oral history collection

Credit

Software History Center

Lot Number

X4204.2008

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