Re: AW: How Do You Pronounce "PostgreSQL"? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From The Hermit Hacker
Subject Re: AW: How Do You Pronounce "PostgreSQL"?
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Msg-id Pine.BSF.4.21.0008242344080.801-100000@thelab.hub.org
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In response to Re: AW: How Do You Pronounce "PostgreSQL"?  (Chris Bitmead <chrisb@nimrod.itg.telstra.com.au>)
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On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Chris Bitmead wrote:

> The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> 
> > > Guess what you find under www.postgres.com ? Yes, it is Great Bridge.
> > > postgresql.com is taken by some Korean domain grabber.
> > >
> > > BTW Marc, I would make www.postgres.org point to postgresql.
> > 
> > Not our domain to point ... it too belongs to Great Bridge ...
> 
> That's interesting, when did GreatBridge acquire them?
> 
> In my opinion, we should change the name to Postgres, and get
> GreatBridge to donate the .org domain to the opensource project. That's
> good for Greatbridge because they own the .com which would actually then
> become useful. It's good for the free project because people are calling
> it postgres anyway and it's a better brand name.

Just because ppl are referring to the project by the wrong name doesn't
make it right ... just because MySQL changes their name to MaxSQL, are you
going to accept them any differently?  

Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org 



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