Re: There are advantages to having an odd name

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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