| From: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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| To: | Jeff Eckermann <jeff_eckermann(at)yahoo(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Sullivan <andrew(at)libertyrms(dot)info>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: I am being interviewed by OReilly |
| Date: | 2002-07-06 03:04:26 |
| Message-ID: | 20020706000213.A22387-100000@mail1.hub.org |
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On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Jeff Eckermann wrote:
> Well, for one:
>
> An awful lot of people think the name is:
> "Postgre-SQL", or
> "Postgre-SEQUEL"
>
> If marketing matters (as a lot of people have been
> suggesting in recent threads), then better to have a
> non-ambiguous name that is easy to pronounce
> correctly.
Post-gres-Q-L ... again, that is difficult to pronounce in what way? Or
is it just too much work to educate ppl? I'm sorry, but I have alot of
ppl that ask me about 'Postgres', and the first thing I do is explain to
them what *Postgres* was, and how to pronounce Post-gres-Q-L ...
personally, I've been saying it for so long now that it just rolls off the
tongue *shrug*
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