Closing Remarks
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1965 draft pressure pushes a graduate school path instead of Vietnam, which accidentally seeds a research career; 1971 brings a pivot into Ingres after Gene Wong proposes a database project despite no systems or programming background; the team keeps working past the prototype stage to production quality; 1978 a 40,000 student deployment fails because the university uses cobalt for Unix, prompting formation of Ingres Corporation and a lesson that persistence plus luck and the willingness to shift left matter.
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