Re: Changing the name - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: Changing the name
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Msg-id 9837222c1001261212pc4cd7a8lf3f4f48620a7a5c2@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Changing the name  (Andrej <andrej.groups@gmail.com>)
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2010/1/26 Andrej <andrej.groups@gmail.com>:
> 2010/1/27 Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>:
>
>>> everyone likes.  I am not sure what parts of the project we could name
>>> "Postgres" instead of "PostgreSQL".
>> FWIW, I'm considering doing a lot of the shilling for 9.0 as "Postgres
>> 9".  It looks better on a t-shirt design.  So I fully support exploiting
>> the alias.  I just think that a change of the official name of the
>> project is too much trouble and does not provide clear marketing gains
>> the way, say, doing more case studies would.
> Which is a good idea, specially in light of the fact that someone
> who talked to you at linuxconf in Wellington came back talking
> about Postgre-see-quell :D

That's just Berkus' own personal fork of the project.

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