They have resurrected an aging Oracle foe--Ingres, which uses database technology developed 32 years ago by two Berkeley scientists--to target Oracle's biggest source of profit: the steady, high-margin fees it charges for regular upgrades and support.
Since 1976, Paul Kay of the University of California, Berkeley, another of the paper's authors, has compiled a database of information about how 110 different languages assign colour adjectives to 330 different hues.