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There are advantages to having an odd name

From
Tom Lane
Date:
From time to time someone tells us that we'd be lots more successful
if only we had a more user-friendly project name than "PostgreSQL".
Right at the moment, I'm quite happy to be using a name that no one
else would want ...

http://slashdot.org/articles/03/04/18/0344251.shtml?tid=154

(I feel bad for the Firebird-the-database folks, btw --- sheesh,
the slashdot discussion can't even get straight that they are
Firebird not FirebirdSQL.)
        regards, tom lane

Re: There are advantages to having an odd name

From
Hannu Krosing
Date:
Tom Lane kirjutas L, 19.04.2003 kell 05:53:
> From time to time someone tells us that we'd be lots more successful
> if only we had a more user-friendly project name than "PostgreSQL".
> Right at the moment, I'm quite happy to be using a name that no one
> else would want ...
> 
> http://slashdot.org/articles/03/04/18/0344251.shtml?tid=154

It's good to be reminded (in the light of the 'losing momentum'
discussion focusing mainly on MySQL) that there are also 'real'
databases (Interbase/firebird and SAP DB) that have possibility to catch
up with us.

One of the posts claimed Firebird (SQL) to be so good that if they could
get 1/10th of the resources that postgresSQL has then postgreSQL wil be
obliviated in 2 years ;-p

> (I feel bad for the Firebird-the-database folks, btw --- sheesh,
> the slashdot discussion can't even get straight that they are
> Firebird not FirebirdSQL.)

I was also quite upset by it.

I quite liked the proposal in another post proposing to name browsers
like unix commands so Phoenix/Firebird could be just 'br' ;)

-----------
Hannu

Re: There are advantages to having an odd name

From
Bruce Momjian
Date:
Hannu Krosing wrote:
> Tom Lane kirjutas L, 19.04.2003 kell 05:53:
> > From time to time someone tells us that we'd be lots more successful
> > if only we had a more user-friendly project name than "PostgreSQL".
> > Right at the moment, I'm quite happy to be using a name that no one
> > else would want ...
> > 
> > http://slashdot.org/articles/03/04/18/0344251.shtml?tid=154
> 
> It's good to be reminded (in the light of the 'losing momentum'
> discussion focusing mainly on MySQL) that there are also 'real'
> databases (Interbase/firebird and SAP DB) that have possibility to catch
> up with us.
> 
> One of the posts claimed Firebird (SQL) to be so good that if they could
> get 1/10th of the resources that postgresSQL has then postgreSQL wil be
> obliviated in 2 years ;-p
> 
> > (I feel bad for the Firebird-the-database folks, btw --- sheesh,
> > the slashdot discussion can't even get straight that they are
> > Firebird not FirebirdSQL.)
> 
> I was also quite upset by it.
> 
> I quite liked the proposal in another post proposing to name browsers
> like unix commands so Phoenix/Firebird could be just 'br' ;)

I am wondering if they should switch to FirebirdSQL for clarity --- of
course, it would be nice if Mozilla would change, but I don't see how
you can call it FirebirdBrowser.

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