From: | "Ross J(dot) Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)wallace(dot)ece(dot)rice(dot)edu> |
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To: | hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Pronunciation of "PostgreSQL" (was: Re: [HACKERS] New man pages) |
Date: | 1999-08-09 20:32:26 |
Message-ID: | 19990809153226.B21737@wallace.ece.rice.edu |
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On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 02:51:02PM -0500, J. Michael Roberts wrote:
> The only thing I hate about PostgreSQL is that it's hard to type with all
> that mixed case. I confess that I've always pronounced it "postgres"
> anyway, so there!
>
> The point of a name is to be distinctive and somewhat descriptive.
> Postgres suffices to set the product off from other database systems.
> There's no real need for the SQL to be in the name. Even Microsoft, in
> their eternal marketing battle, doesn't make a point of writing AccesSQL.
>
Well, that might be because MS-Access... isn't! Their SQL server product,
however is called,...
SQL Server!
Anyone else get cheesed off how MS seems to always try to co-opt generic
words and turn them into ProductNames(tm)? Word? Access? SQL? In my own
little rebellion, I make a point of prefixing MS- whenever I speak or
write about their products.
Ross
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Ross J. Reedstrom, Ph.D., <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu>
NSBRI Research Scientist/Programmer
Computer and Information Technology Institute
Rice University, 6100 S. Main St., Houston, TX 77005
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