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Re:Red Hat ditches MySQL, switches to MariaDB by dorfsmay on Friday June 14, 2013 @08:06AM (#5879417)
It was somebody's ex-wife who was named Gre.
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Re:Red Hat ditches MySQL, switches to MariaDB by drhodes on Friday June 14, 2013 @11:43AM (#5880522)
(Nice joke) But - not true! from the wiki: "The name refers to the project's origins as a "post-Ingres" database, being a development from University Ingres DBMS (Ingres being an abbreviation for INteractive Graphics REtrieval System)." more history can be found at http://www.postgresql.org/about/history/
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