Re: I am being interviewed by OReilly

On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> I totally agree. The name has proven to be hard to pronounce, and that
> is bad for marketing, period. Is marketing important enough to change
> the name? That is the question.

No, period.

For starters, ppl are confusing 'word of mouth' with marketing, which they
aren't the same ...

Marketing *is* the 8 or so books on the shelves and at Amazon for
PostgreSQL, and the ones to follow ...

Marketing is the thousands of t-shirts and mugs and CDs that have gone out
over the past 4+ years ...

Marketing is the countless articles/reviews that ppl have written that
talk about PostgreSQL ...

Marketing is the awards we have won over the years ...

Marketing is proliferation of the newsgroups over the 'Net over the past
4+ years ...

Marketing is the countless companies out there that offer PostgreSQL
services, support *and* training ...

If ppl want to be lazy and call it Postgres, so be it ... as I mentioned
before, its like calling Samantha, Sam ... but the formal name itself is,
and will remain, PostgreSQL ... its what *alot* of us have been marketing
for years now, period.