> > Andy,
> >
> > > 2. At some point way early on in this thread, Josh Berkus said the largest
> > > community has already voted no.
> >
> > No, it was Drake, not me. JD was pointing out that someone (I don't remember
> > who) had spoken for the JPUG board against a name change. Since JPUG is our
> > single largest national community, this is a pretty significant "no" vote.
>
> If someone were me, I would like to point out that I'm not in the
> position of speaking for JPUG bord. However when I startred a
> discussion in the JPUG's mailing list on name changing, I found the
> major opinions were against the name change. If you really want to
> know how the JPUG board think, I could send an inquery to them.
I asked the JPUG borard and they decided not to express yes or no
opinion for name changing.
Here are some opinions from JPUG board members.
- We don't want to change the name
- It is ok to change the name if all communities other than Japan wish
to do so
- "Postgres" lacks "DB" or "SQL", which is not good for new
users since they might not notice it's a database software
- "PostgreSQL" is definitley hard to pronounce
- "SQLite" is hard to pronounce too, and people tend to pronounce
"Linux" differently, but the become popular
- It's just a matter to unify the pronounciation of "PostgreSQL", isn't it?
- Finding or creating PostgreSQL applications is much more important to
make PostgreSQL popular than discussing the name change
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
