Re: Changing the name

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Changing the name
Date: 2010-01-23 03:46:36
Message-ID: 1264218396.1864.7.camel@jd-laptop.pragmaticzealot.org
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On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 22:28 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
>
> > I think it would be a great time to change the name of the
> > project back to "Postgres",

Back to Postgres? To my knowledge it has never been postgres. There was
Postgres95....

> and relegate "PostgreSQL" to
> > an official and eternal yet discouraged alias.
>

Sure, just a copy and paste for me.

Of course it would completely destroy the branding identity of several
extremely large communities (and non-profits) comprising many people,
including one of which you are a Director for.

> +1 (despite what my sig says)
>

If we do this, I will reiterate that PostgreSQL is the project, Postgres
is the database. The branding around the name is entirely too important
and long lasting at this point.

Joshua D. Drake

P.S. Do you really want to start this war all over again?

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> Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
> The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
>

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