Re: InformationWeek article on PostgreSQL

It's exteremly common when the two entities have the same name.

Has anyone thought of suggesting a change of name from PostgreSQL Inc. to PGSQL Inc. so that;

a) They're name reflects the website URL
b) It vastly lessens the confusion.

Al.

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> I wrongly assumed this was another article where the author confused
> PostgreSQL Inc with PostgreSQL community. It has happened so often I
> didn't even read the article. After I read it, I see Geoff was quoted
> as a PostgreSQL support company and the article in fact clarified our
> idependent status, which is great. Yea, the Aberdeen Group quote was
> poor, but we can't have everything.
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> Rod Taylor wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 11:33, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > > On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Guys who would contact Geoff Davidson about PostgreSQL (sorry Geoff)
> > > > know so little about us that it is not even worth the paper it is
> > > > printed on.
> > >
> > > Based on what do you jump to the conclusion that he "knows so little about
> > > us"? Geoff, surprisingly enough, has a mindset of (to my chagrin at
> >
> > I think the problem isn't Geoff, but the Aberdeen Group. The article was
> > poorly written and to make it look like Geoff may have been quoting
> > Aberdeen's report, which said we don't support row locking (FOR UPDATE
> > anyone?)
> >
> >
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