Re: There are advantages to having an odd name

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' ;)

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Hannu