Re: Change the name

From: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: "Chris Travers" <chris(at)metatrontech(dot)com>
Cc: "Robert Treat" <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, "Chris Travers" <chris(at)travelamericas(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Change the name
Date: 2007-09-17 15:17:24
Message-ID: 87myvltj7f.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com
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"Chris Travers" <chris(at)metatrontech(dot)com> writes:

> Robert Treat wrote:
>> Unfortunatly I took a fair amount of sales and marketing classes in college,
>> so I guess I have to chime in here. The argument against it is weakening the
>> brand, and adding confusion to the market place. . We already suffer from
>> this now, and promoting two names only makes this worse.
>
> The only major problem I see with this argument is that the RDBMS is called any
> of: PostgreSQL, Postgres, Pg, etc. Postgres is arguably *already* a stronger
> trademark of this project than is PostgreSQL because most people who are lazy
> type "PostgreSQL" as 'Pg' and pronounce it "Postgres."
>
> I guess my concern is that we already have this problem.

Wait, what problem?

> If we want to be consistent, we need to name things more consistently.

That's just a truism, do we care about being consistent though?

> It would be better to have *one* trademark would clearly be better.

Better how?

--
Gregory Stark
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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