Michael Stonebraker is a computer scientist specializing in database research and development.
He is also the founder of Ingres and Illustra and was previously the CTO of Informix Corporation. He is also an editor for the book 'Readings in Database Systems'.
The entrepreneural history of Stonebraker is quite interesting. In creating the Ingres project at UC Berkeley, he helped to seed the Ingres Corporation which was later sold. He then went back into academia and created the Postgres project and that was the basis for Illustra. That academic version of Postgres was taken by open source developers and made into PostgreSQL. On his second return to academia, he initiated the Mariposa project which probably became the basis of Cohera which was subsequently sold to PeopleSoft.
Currently, Michael Stonebraker is teaching at M.I.T.
Hello Michael, welcome to the 'pedia! Don't forget to check out the Welcome, newcomers page (wish I did so when I first started). --User:maveric149