Re: Change the name - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Tatsuo Ishii
Subject Re: Change the name
Date
Msg-id 20070925.182629.34377815.t-ishii@sraoss.co.jp
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In response to Re: Change the name  (Christian Voelker <C.Voelker@gmx.net>)
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan

> Hello,
>
> I strongly believe that is wrong to ask somebody
> whether the name should be changed. The answer
> will always be biased because people tend to
> stick with what they are used to.
>
> We all agreed that there will be a considerable
> amount of work to be done for a name change, but
> that is a different question. If you really want
> to know which name is better, then you have to
> make people to take a neutral perspective.
>
> You might ask something like this: The idea
> of changing PostgreSQLs name is popping up
> every now and then. Do you believe that there
> would be a similar discussion if the name
> of the project were Postgres?
>
> To come back to the results of your question,
> the idea of using DB instead of SQL as a sign
> is interesting though I doubt that anybody
> would start the renaming project if the new
> name were decided to be PostgresDB.
>
> Bye, Christian
>

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