Re: the PostgreSQL Elephant

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: the PostgreSQL Elephant
Date: 2004-07-12 21:21:31
Message-ID: 20040712181557.H867@ganymede.hub.org
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On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

>
>> Per my own email? Huh? I'm against changing something that we've worked
>>
>>> 4 years on branding into ppl minds ...
>
> Marc said:
>
> If you are distributing Slony brochures, use the Slony elephant ... we have
> an official logo, that is used *everywhere* ... in marketing, I believe its
> called 'branding a product', and slipping in a different logo, IMHO, only
> breeds a sense of confusion and incohesiveness as far as the project is
> concerned ...
>
> PostgreSQL Elephant != Slony Elephant != Mammoth Elephant
>
> They are all different logos, for different products, and should be used to
> advertise their respective products, not a different one altogether ...
>
>
> That says to me that you don't want confusion between products, commercial
> entities etc... with the community.

Not sure how you arrived at that from my email ... *puzzled look* ... but
I guess that's the fun with email, its easy to interprete things as you
want to see them ... that is not what I said, nor what I implied ...

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