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Evolution of Commercial Ingress over Academic Ingress
By 1982, commercial ingress outperformed academic ingress due to a team of 20 programmers working on its development. The academic project couldn't compete, leading to the need for a shift in focus. Ingress, standing for Interactive Graphics and Retrieval Assistant, was intended for a GIS system project that ultimately failed. The failure was attributed to the complexity of writing SQL queries to interact with polygons, highlighting the challenges encountered in the project.