Re: The naming question (Postgres vs PostgreSQL)

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, "Gavin M(dot) Roy" <gmr(at)myyearbook(dot)com>
Cc: Derek Rodner <derek(dot)rodner(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Robert Bernier <robert(dot)bernier5(at)sympatico(dot)ca>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: The naming question (Postgres vs PostgreSQL)
Date: 2007-08-28 23:15:40
Message-ID: 09F9181C3B8815EBB1C381A3@ganymede.hub.org
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- --On Tuesday, August 28, 2007 21:15:50 +0200 Magnus Hagander
<magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:

> Yeah. And you think the presence of PostgreSQL Inc isn't a problem
> today? No offense to Marc, both he and PostgreSQL Inc has done a lot of
> good things, but it certainly does *not* help the community to have a
> company named the same way as our OSS product that claims 7.4 has just
> been released and nothing has happened with us since 7.4.

There is actually a *huge* difference here ... joshua will/would be actively
pushing/marketing "Postgres, Inc" ... PostgreSQL, Inc hasn't done either for
over 2 years now ... I've even started to scale back the web site itself ...

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