Re: my signature

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Cédric Villemain
> <cedric(dot)villemain(dot)debian(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Robert, Please don't add confusion to your signature : PostgreSQL is a
>> community project not an enterprise product.
>> --
>> Cédric Villemain               2ndQuadrant
>> http://2ndQuadrant.fr/     PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support
>
> Uh, whoa.  That came out of nowhere for me.  I have been using this
> signature for about a year, and nobody's said anything about it
> before.  "The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company" is our corporate slogan,
> and at least three of us have it in our signature for that reason,
> much as (or so I gather) "PostgreSQL: Support, Training, and Services"
> is 2ndQuadrant's tagline (with some variations depending on the
> primary language of the person posting), and "The PostgreSQL Company -
> Command Prompt, Inc." is CommandPrompt's tag line.  Any of those
> slogans - and *especially* CommandPrompt's - could be taken to imply
> that one of those companies is the primary driving force behind
> PostgreSQL, but in fact - as we are all aware - no one company
> dominates the market for PostgreSQL products and services, or controls
> its development.
>
> Someone from another community could be forgiven for thinking that any
> of those taglines intend to imply that the associated company occupies
> the same position with respect to PostgreSQL that 10gen has with
> respect to MongoDB, but I don't see that any one of them is
> exponentially more egregious than any of the others.
>
> Heck, even the name "PostgreSQL Experts, Inc." could be taken to imply
> that the rest of us are all chumps.

Actually, I found it unprofessional as well.

Merlin Moncure
Resident PostgreSQL Badass