From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> |
Cc: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: The naming question (Postgres vs PostgreSQL) |
Date: | 2007-08-30 23:22:39 |
Message-ID: | 20070830232239.GA5872@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Joe Conway wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> In summary, looking at possible conclusions to this discussion, I think
>> we have:
>> 1) No change
>> 2) Emphasize "Postgres" more as an alternative
>> 3) Change the name to "PostgresQL"
>> 4) Change the name to "Postgres QL"
>> 5) Change the name to "Postgres"
>
> 6) Change the name to "Postgres" and emphasize "PostgreSQL" as
> an alternative
>
> My vote -- #6. Announce it with release of 8.3. Allow a relatively slow,
> natural transition from "PostgreSQL with Postgres as alt" to "Postgres with
> PostgreSQL as alt" (e.g. over the course of a year or so as has been
> mentioned).
+1 to #6 and the rest of Joe's opinion.
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