Re: The naming question (Postgres vs PostgreSQL)

From: Decibel! <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com, 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 23:16:12
Message-ID: 20070828231612.GI1386@nasby.net
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On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 12:29:57PM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
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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.

Well, there's a very simple way for you to ensure that's not an issue.
:)
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Decibel!, aka Jim Nasby decibel(at)decibel(dot)org
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