Re: Changing the name

The original project at UCB was called Postgres.

Andrew and Jolly finalized the project and called it
postges95 and then turned it over to the open source
group.

--elein

On Jan 22, 2010, at 7:46 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> 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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>> The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
>>
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