Re: The naming question (Postgres vs PostgreSQL) - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: The naming question (Postgres vs PostgreSQL)
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Msg-id 20070829055034.1F9FADCC674@svr2.hagander.net
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In response to Re: The naming question (Postgres vs PostgreSQL)  ("Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>)
Responses Re: The naming question (Postgres vs PostgreSQL)  ("Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>)
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> > Yeah. And you think the presence of PostgreSQL Inc isn't a problem
> > today? No offense to Marc, both he and PostgreSQL Inc has done a lot of
> > good things, but it certainly does *not* help the community to have a
> > company named the same way as our OSS product that claims 7.4 has just
> > been released and nothing has happened with us since 7.4.
>
> There is actually a *huge* difference here ... joshua will/would be actively
> pushing/marketing "Postgres, Inc" ... PostgreSQL, Inc hasn't done either for
> over 2 years now ... I've even started to scale back the web site itself ...

Yes. while we don't *know* that will happen this has the potential of being worse, at least.

On the website issue, I've been meaning to ask you: since your news page isn't actually updated anymore, would you
considerremoving it or at least add info to  
it saying it's not updated? there are probably other parts out of date too, but that's the worst one I think.

/Magnus


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