Re: the PostgreSQL Elephant - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Marc G. Fournier
Subject Re: the PostgreSQL Elephant
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Msg-id 20040712181557.H867@ganymede.hub.org
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In response to Re: the PostgreSQL Elephant  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

>
>> Per my own email?  Huh?  I'm against changing something that we've worked
>>
>>> 4 years on branding into ppl minds ...
>
> Marc said:
>
> If you are distributing Slony brochures, use the Slony elephant ... we have
> an official logo, that is used *everywhere* ... in marketing, I believe its
> called 'branding a product', and slipping in a different logo, IMHO, only
> breeds a sense of confusion and incohesiveness as far as the project is
> concerned ...
>
> PostgreSQL Elephant != Slony Elephant != Mammoth Elephant
>
> They are all different logos, for different products, and should be used to
> advertise their respective products, not a different one altogether ...
>
>
> That says to me that you don't want confusion between products, commercial
> entities etc... with the community.

Not sure how you arrived at that from my email ... *puzzled look* ... but
I guess that's the fun with email, its easy to interprete things as you
want to see them ... that is not what I said, nor what I implied ...


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