The original project at UCB was called Postgres.
Andrew and Jolly finalized the project and called it
postges95 and then turned it over to the open source
group.
--elein
On Jan 22, 2010, at 7:46 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 22:28 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
>>
>>> I think it would be a great time to change the name of the
>>> project back to "Postgres",
>
> Back to Postgres? To my knowledge it has never been postgres. There was
> Postgres95....
>
>> and relegate "PostgreSQL" to
>>> an official and eternal yet discouraged alias.
>>
>
> Sure, just a copy and paste for me.
>
>
> Of course it would completely destroy the branding identity of several
> extremely large communities (and non-profits) comprising many people,
> including one of which you are a Director for.
>
>
>> +1 (despite what my sig says)
>>
>
> If we do this, I will reiterate that PostgreSQL is the project, Postgres
> is the database. The branding around the name is entirely too important
> and long lasting at this point.
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>
>
> P.S. Do you really want to start this war all over again?
>
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>> The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
>>
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