Re: The naming question (Postgres vs PostgreSQL)

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org, Derek Rodner <derek(dot)rodner(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Robert Bernier <robert(dot)bernier5(at)sympatico(dot)ca>
Subject: Re: The naming question (Postgres vs PostgreSQL)
Date: 2007-08-28 19:29:57
Message-ID: 46D477B5.2000403@commandprompt.com
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Josh Berkus wrote:
> Derek,
>
>> Regardless, even if Josh changes the company name, I believe that the
>> benefits far outweigh that potential negative and we should move
>> forward.
>
> You say that because you weren't around when PostgreSQL, Inc. was active.
> There was a time when the *first* question I had to answer at a booth was
> to explain that we were not PostgreSQL, Inc. I don't want to go back to
> that time.

Nor do I. However, that was a different time and a time when PostgreSQL
was barely known, which is certainly not the case now.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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