| From: | Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net> |
|---|---|
| To: | Tom Copeland <tom(at)infoether(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com, pgsql-advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Name that project contest! |
| Date: | 2005-04-09 04:03:07 |
| Message-ID: | 200504090003.07241.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net |
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On Friday 08 April 2005 22:22, Tom Copeland wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 22:24 -0400, Robert Treat wrote:
> > On Friday 08 April 2005 20:36, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > > >> Very soon, I will be launching a sponsored project around optimizing
> > > >> PostgreSQL for Business Intelligence, Decision Support and Data
> > > >> Warehousing applications. One problem we've had is coming up with
> > > >> a name for this project. Suggestions so far have included
> > > >> "P.G.B.I." and "PostGreen", but nothing has really grabbed us.
> > > >
> > > > Oracle?
> > >
> > > Just in case... this was a joke.
> >
> > How about just calling it "postgres". This would show a relationship
> > with PostgreSQL and it's predecessor POSTGRES but be easily
> > differentiated by the unique spelling.
>
> How about "firefox"? Or maybe, "firebird"? Oh wait...
>
When the firbird folks tried to write a clone of oracle they called it
fyracle... I'm not sure how close this will be but maybe postgracle would be
good?
--
Robert Treat
Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL
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